Altering Periphery at the Border: Measuring the Border Effect in the Hungarian-Romanian and the Hungarian-Ukrainian Border Zones
Altering Periphery at the Border: Measuring the Border Effect in the Hungarian-Romanian and the Hungarian-Ukrainian Border Zones

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the empirical confirmation of the so-called deborderisation process along the Hungarian and particularly the eastern Hungarian borders. This tendency has been spurred by a number of factors: globalisation tendencies, regional integration, multinational companies and foreign direct investments, etc. so an analysis like this could evaluate many of them as well. To conduct the research the authors make a special algorithm in which they want to test the macro and micro economic effects of the disappearing borders. According to the results the deborderisation process in CEE and in the Hungarian context is verifiable but it shows significant heterogeneity. The eastern borders of Hungary have also different patterns and the role of the European integration is obvious as the Hungarian-Romanian border has a lesser role in distorting the economic interactions.

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