resilience,regional economic performance,unemployment, volatility,rural regions, Czechia, Italy, Germany, Romania

Článek se zabývá hodnocením ekonomické odolnosti venkovských regionů čtyř vybraných zemí EU: Německá, Itálie, Česka a Rumunska.

In this paper,we focus on economic resilience of selected rural NUTS3 regions in Germany, Italy, Czechia and Romania between 2000 and 2016. Our main aim is to provide empirical evidence of the long-term differences in economic resilience and volatility of rural regions across the national contexts. We ask, if and to what extent is it possible to identify similar regional patterns in various countries in terms of the reaction to the crisis: a) which rural regions improved/deteriorated in comparison to the economic performance of other rural regions in the respective country,b) which regions were characteristic by the high/low volatility of economic performance. We found highly diverse regional reactions to the crisis. While there were no clearly recognizable patterns of economic resilience, volatility was related to the changes in economic structure. Rural regions in Romania combined high eco-nomic volatility with the shift from agriculture mostly towards services.