ESR 4

Project: Understanding the role of agents present on the housing market in the production of core-periphery relations

ESR 4: Zsuzsanna Pósfai (Host: CERSHAS)

Description: The core-periphery relations are constantly shaped by social interactions between various agents reflecting their specific institutional environments. In this context, the project aims at understanding how the interactions of “peripheral” economic agents with “core” actors and their embeddedness into various non-local networks reflect, reproduce or counteract the peripherality of the region under study. The study will focus on housing markets and on actors present in this field. The research will strive to understand sub-national processes of peripheralization as embedded in global economic processes, and will investigate these broader dependencies as well. To better understand how these processes are shaped by different national contexts, the project will focus on (eastern) Germany and Hungary. It will make use of existing research capacities of Social Impact and IfL.