The Use of European Funds in Polish and Czech Municipalities. A Study of the Lower Silesia Voivodship and Hradec Kralove Region

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium

土木建筑工程;文学

Kachniarz, Marian^1 ; Szewranski, Szymon^1 ; Kazak, Jan^1

Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Grunwaldzka str. 55, Wroclaw

50-357, Poland^1

关键词: Economies of scale;    Lower Silesia;    Scale effects;    Spatial analysis;    Spatial dependencies;    Structural funds;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/471/11/112047/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/471/11/112047

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The paper presents an analysis of the use of EU funds by municipalities in two neighbouring regions-the Lower Silesian Voivodship (Poland) and the Hradec Kralove region (Czechia). In total, 580 communes were analyzed (168 on Polish and 412 on the Czech side). The main aim of paper was spatial analysis and the demonstration of differences in the distribution of structural funds. The hypothesis of the scale effect-greater efficiency in gaining subsidies by larger units was especially tried. The results of the research allow for a few key conclusions. Polish municipalities have a greater influence on shaping local politics, which means that they obtain more funds than their counterparts on the Czech side. Our research has not proved the economies of scale, both on the Polish and Czech side, and no significant spatial dependencies have been demonstrated.