Judit Berkes

@rki.krtk.hu

Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute for Regional Studies Transdanubian Research Department
Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute for Regional Studies Transdanubian Research Department

Judit Berkes


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Urban Studies, Geography, Planning and Development, Development
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Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans
    Judit BERKES, Ádám PÁTHY, Ildikó EGYED, Szilárd RÁCZ
    Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2025
    Over the past three decades, significant socio-economic transformations have reshaped the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. This study examines the 'geography' of firms with over 10 employees across 15 countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Using data from over 300,000 firms, the analysis focuses on firm size categories, turnover, and activity distribution. The research highlights disparities between post-socialist and other countries, employing descriptive statistics and the framework of agglomeration economies to uncover nuanced spatial patterns. The findings reveal significant differences in business concentration and the functions of small and medium-sized cities, particularly in regions without a European-scale metropolis, emphasising their role in regional economic and demographic sustainability.
  • THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE HUNGARIAN NUTS3 REGIONS BETWEEN 2010-2020
    Judit Berkes, Tamás Dusek
    Deturope, 2023
    International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.
  • EDITORIAL: Cities, Regions and Borders in Central and Eastern Europe
    Judit Berkes, Ildikó Egyed, Szilárd Rácz
    Deturope, 2023
    International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.
  • Spatial spread of pandemics – Spatial relations of the five wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on the example of Győr-Moson-Sopron County
    Veronika Szentes, Szabolcs Morvay, Judit Berkes, Zsolt Szakály
    Statisztikai Szemle, 2023
    A járványok terjedésének elemzésével számos diszciplína foglalkozik. A térbeli relációk, regionális egyenlőtlenségek meghatározó változói egy-egy járvány terjedési intenzitásának, kiterjedésének, súlyosságának, elengedhetetlenek tehát a regionális szempontú vizsgálódások. A területi elemzésekben használt módszertani arzenál változatos: matematikai, statisztikai, hálózati, illetve térbeli szimulációs modellekkel találkozhatunk a járványok térbeli terjedésének vizsgálatakor. Jelen tanulmány a statisztikai módszereket veszi alapul. A járványok súlyossága – legyen szó egészségügyi vagy éppen gazdasági hatásról – a terjedés intenzitásának a fékezésével mérsékelhető. Ennek érdekében folytattuk le azt a retrospektív kutatást, amely tanulmányunk alapjául szolgált, és GyőrMoson-Sopron megyét abban az időszakban vette górcső alá, amikor a SARS-CoV-2-koronavírus okozta pandémia a legintenzívebben volt jelen hazánkban, ugyanúgy, ahogyan a világ legtöbb országában is.
  • TWENTY YEARS OF THE HUNGARIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN NUMBERS
    Judit Berkes, Zsuzsanna Zsibók
    Deturope, 2022
    This study is a retrospect on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Regional Science Association. Our aim is to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of these two decades in the light of quantifiable facts and results. We use document analysis and statistical descriptive methods in order to present a compact picture of the history of the Association's development. The results of our analysis confirm the impression that the Association, after a consistent building process, is characterised by stability, and it offers a wide range of perspectives for professional cooperation between the representatives of regional science.
  • Households’ electricity consumption in hungarian urban areas
    Ferenc Bakó, Judit Berkes, Cecília Szigeti
    Energies, 2021
    The aim of this study is to examine the factors influencing the electricity consumption of urban households and to prove these with statistically significant results. The study includes 46 small and medium-sized towns in Hungary. The methodology of the study is mainly provided by a model that can be used for this purpose; however, the results obtained with the traditional regression method are compared with the results of another, more complex estimation method, the artificial neural network, which has the advantage of being able to use different types of models. The focus of our article is on methodological alignment, not necessarily the discovery of new results. Certain demographic characteristics significantly determine the energy demand of a household sector in a municipality. In this case, as the ratio of people aged 60 or over within a city rises by 1%, the urban household average energy consumption decreases by 61 kilowatt hours, and when it rises by 1%, the amount of pollutants expelled from urban households’ average energy consumption may decrease by 22.8745 kg. The research area of our paper was greatly influenced by the availability of the statistical data. The results can be used in the planning of urban developments.
  • Highly qualified social strata in urban areas of Hungarian regional centres from 1980 to 2011
    Judit Berkes
    Regional Statistics, 2021
  • The Economic Structure and Performance of the Catchment Area of the Hungarian Regional Centers
    Judit Berkes
    Deturope, 2020
    International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.
  • The most important city development initiatives of Hungary
    János Rechnitzer, Judit Berkes, Bálint Filep
    Regional Statistics, 2019
    Recently, Hungary's urban development issues have been gaining increasing attention, while directions and institutional frameworks of regional politics are in a constant change. In this context, the study discusses the contents and connotations that can be linked to the territorial concept of major Hungarian cities; it also examines the changes in the position of these cities in the urban system. Major cities have a key role in territorial development as they facilitate spatial processes, and hence it is crucial to identify the weight and directions these centres with complex functions represent in development concepts. The formation or even restructuring of spatial processes require time. Since the democratic transition in 1989-1990, different development directions were assigned to major cities in short cycles. Cities have failed to adapt to these ever-changing objectives.