REGIONAL ECONOMIC SECURITY: ANALYSIS BY REGIONS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A RISK INDEX
Keywords:
regional economic security; spatial economic spillovers; robust normalization; economic risk; composite index; entropy method; AHP; W-matrix; interregional disparities; risk index; regional development; economic stability.Abstract
The article improves scientific and methodological approaches to assessing economic security and proposes a new integrated mechanism designed to overcome the limitations of existing composite methods. The proposed index is based on a system of indicators that covers macro-stability, labor market conditions, socio-economic balance, and interregional spatial effects. The findings confirm that the author-developed index is practically useful for an in-depth analysis of regional disparities, identifying spatial effects within economic security, and formulating targeted regional development policies.
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