THE ATTITUDES TOWARD THE EURO ADOPTION IN CROATIA

Autor: Požega, Željko, Crnković, Boris, Katolik Kovačević, Andreja
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Ekonomski pregled
Volume 74
Issue 4
ISSN: 1848-9494
0424-7558
Popis: The purpose of the research is to investigate the attitudes towards the adoption of the euro. The research is exploratory and correlational and uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. The qualitative part of the research, carried out through the thematic analysis of the participants’ responses, is aimed at investigating the reasons behind the support or lack of support of the participants towards the adoption of the euro, and the quantitative part, through stepwise regression, identified the best predictors of support for adopting the euro. The research was conducted on a convenient sample of 242 participants. The topics that appeared during the analysis of the perceived negative effects of the introduction of the euro are the financial aspect and negative psychological consequences, while the topics that appeared when analysing the perceived positive effects of the introduction of the euro are the advantages of the single currency (e.g. in financial services, business and economy, lending, loans and related costs, etc.), and living standards (e.g. long-term: increase in purchasing power, convergence of living standards). The best predictors of the participants’ attitude towards the introduction of the euro were the perception of whether the introduction of the euro would lower their standard of living, whether they would have difficulty adjusting to the new value of money, and their trust in the European Parliament. The biggest limitations of the research are convenient sampling and the use of thematic analysis on the answers of the participants that were collected in the open-ended questions of the survey questionnaire. For the possibility of wider generalization of the results, it would be necessary to repeat the research on a larger sample, and for a better understanding of the respondents’ answers to the open-ended questions, it would be useful to use in-depth interviews. The use of open-ended questions and systematic thematic analysis is a special feature of this research because the results of the analysis enable new insights to be gained and at the same time the creation of a questionnaire and the application of quantitative methodology in order to check the possibility of population generalization of the obtained findings.
Svrha istraživanja je istražiti stavove prema usvajanju eura. Istraživanje je eksploratorno i korelacijsko, a koristi kombinaciju kvalitativnog i kvantitativnog pristupa. Kvalitativni dio istraživanja, proveden preko tematske analize odgovora sudionika je usmjeren na istraživanje razloga koji stoje iza potpore ili nedostatka potpore sudionika prema usvajanju eura, a kvantitativnim su se dijelom, regresijskom analizom u koracima, identificirali najbolji prediktori potpore ulasku na euro. Istraživanje je provedeno na prigodnom uzorku od 242 sudionika. Teme koje su se pojavile pri analizi percipiranih negativnih učinaka uvođenja eura su financijski aspekt i negativne psihološke posljedice, dok su teme koje su se pojavile pri analizi percipiranih pozitivnih učinaka uvođenja eura prednosti jedinstvene valute (npr. u financijskim uslugama, poslovanju i gospodarstvu, kreditiranju, zajmovima i povezanim troškovima itd.), te životnom standardu (npr. dugoročno: povećanje kupovne moći, konvergencija životnog standarda). Najbolji prediktori stava sudionika prema uvođenju eura bila je percepcija hoće li uvođenje eura sniziti njihov životni standard, hoće li imati poteškoća s prilagodbom novoj vrijednosti novca te njihovo povjerenje u Europski parlament. Najveća ograničenja istraživanja su prigodno uzorkovanje i korištenje tematske analize nad odgovorima sudionika koji su prikupljeni u otvorenim pitanjima anketnog upitnika. Za mogućnost šire generalizacije rezultata bi bilo potrebno istraživanje ponoviti na većem uzorku, a za bolje razumijevanje odgovora ispitanika na otvorena pitanja bi bilo korisno upotrijebiti dubinske intervjue. Korištenje otvorenih pitanja i sustavne tematske analize je posebnost ovog istraživanja jer rezultati analize omogućavaju dobivanje novih uvida i istovremeno izradu upitnika i primjenu kvantitativne metodologije kako bi se provjerila mogućnost populacijske generalizacije dobivenih nalaza.
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