The Post-Communist Capital City Effects, Transnacional Activities and Regional Development in the Czech Republic in the 1990s: A Modelling Approach
Abstract
The so-called capital city effects have become a key feature of regional development tendecies in the post-communist countries indicating that in the new circumstances capital cities have been super-dominant or dominant in their respective monocentric national city-systems. The paper considers the transactional processes which sustain and even strngthen dominant capital city effects.
Major hypotheses are incorporated into an explanatory model which is concerned with some selected development conditions indicating inherited from the communist past. The statistical model (LISREL modelling based on a system of standardised multiple linear regressions) explains differences in changes in in economicc level in 1991-2001 across seventy micro-regions of the Czech Republic.