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The urban geography of financial economy in the Czech Republic
The urban geography of financial economy in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Ján Sucháček
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije
Keywords: banking sector; company headquarters; Czech Republic; economic power

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the spatial structure of the Czech banking sector. Bank headquarters and other banking activities affect the variation in economic power of different parts of the country. The advocated thesis is that spatial concentration of bank headquarters in the Czech Republic are only one of the manifestations of national centralisation, which corresponds to the traditional model centre-periphery.

  • Issue Year: 17/2006
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 114-118
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Slovenian