journal: ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography

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Open Access Published since January 1, 1957

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography

ISSN: 2748-1964

Edited by: Harald Bathelt, Sebastian Henn

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Call for Papers – Special Issue
Shaping Globalisation: Revisiting the State-Global Production Network Nexus

Guest editors: Martin Hess & Rory Horner (University of Manchester)

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Deadline (Abstracts): June 19^th, 2023

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Call for Papers – Special Issue
Complementarity of Locations: challenges of sustainability and disruptions

Guest editors: Ram Mudambi (Temple University, USA) & Pengfei Li (University of Calgary, Canada)

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Deadline (Abstracts): March 31^st, 2024

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Starting with issue 1/2022, the former journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (The German Journal of Economic Geography) will be relaunched under the new title ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography. With ongoing internationalization of academic disciplines, the journal has made the decision to open up to the global academic community by focusing on English-language publications.

To support the relaunch and invite a broad readership, ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography will be transferred to Diamond Open Access on a year-by-year basis, starting with the 2022 volume. All articles will immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY, at no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of ZFW and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography aims to become a driver of and contributor to the global knowledge architecture in the field of economic geography broadly defined through its commitment to diversity regarding innovative themes and authors and by pushing for a non-partisan cross-disciplinary agenda. It invites contributions that develop novel conceptualizations and present new empirical insights into economic structures, processes and practices, as well as their variations and outcomes in spatial perspective. Themes of particular interest include the actors and institutions shaping regional economic development, the institutional and socio-economic triggers of localized knowledge generation and innovation, the flows of people, knowledge and resources over distance, the development and persistence of unequal economic geographies worldwide, the global organization of capitalism and its evolution in spatial perspective, the impact of new societal challenges across space, and related topical areas.

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Volume 67 Issue 2-3

August 2023

Publicly Available August 15, 2022

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Page range: I-III

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Editorial

Open Access August 15, 2022

Seven Years of Brexit: Economic Geographies of Regional De- and Recoupling

Johannes Glückler, Dariusz Wójcik

Page range: 67-75

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This editorial offers a comprehensive introduction to the economic geographies of Brexit. It reviews the state of research on the multiple causes and consequences of the 2016 UK referendum and highlights the role of geographical context in the way that these factors interact in affecting voting behaviour and economic impact. Departing from an appraisal of the literature, we discuss the scope of six original studies collected in the special issue that, each using different analytical methods, present evidence on the impact of Brexit on the relocation of financial services firms, the recoupling of London with the other European financial centres, differences in regional productivity across the UK, as well as on the potential of UK regional policy to offset the disadvantages of financial decoupling from the European Union. Recognizing signs of political and economic disintegration beyond Europe, we conclude by highlighting a need for further research on the economic geographies of de- and recoupling.

Research articles

Open Access August 15, 2022

Viewing the impact of Brexit on Britain’s financial centre through an historical lens: Can there be a third reinvention of the City of London?

Gary Dymski, Maria Gavris, Gissell Huaccha

Page range: 76-91

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This paper considers the question of how Brexit will affect the City of London from a long-term perspective, putting the changes induced by Brexit into the context of the City’s historical evolution over the past century. This perspective permits us to see that the City has continued to thrive because of a series of radical adjustments necessitated by the UK’s loss of its empire and by the emergence of global US financial power. Challenges to the global prominence of the City in Britain’s post-empire period have required two separate ‘reinventions’: the first, in the 1960s, involved localizing the Eurodollar markets; the second, in the 1990s, involved making London the preferred hub for providing sophisticated financial services within the European Union (EU)’s single market. The Great Financial Crisis put in motion several economic and political dynamics that have, however, undercut the City’s special global role. It is unclear whether maintaining the City’s offshore focus via a third reinvention, in a period of prolonged stagnation and increasing inequality in UK regions outside London, will be possible.

Open Access August 15, 2022

Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit

Sarah Hall, Martin Heneghan

Page range: 92-104

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This paper examines the impacts of Brexit as an external shock to European financial centre relations. In particular, it studies the changing nature of Paris-London financial relations post Brexit. Early on in the Brexit process, Paris was not understood as the most likely European centre to benefit from Brexit given its tax regime and high office costs. However, our analysis shows that through policy and corporate network change, it has been one of the major beneficiaries. In making this argument, the paper develops a sympathetic critique of work on global cities that has tended to emphasise corporate networks without fully situating them within their political landscapes. We argue that bringing work in economic geography into closer dialogue with work in international political economy offers one fruitful way of addressing this oversight and, in turn, better understanding how inter-city relations respond to external shocks.

Open Access August 15, 2022

Do they do as they say?

Analysing the Impact of Brexit on Relocation Intentions in the UK’s FinTech Industry

Franziska Sohns, Dariusz Wójcik

Page range: 105-126

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This paper responds to Bathelt and Li’s (2020) call for selecting more appropriate methods and improving their rigour by evaluating the feasibility of using factorial surveys to anticipate future relocation behaviour. By utilising a case study approach, focussing on Brexit and the UK FinTech industry, the paper examines to what extent business managers’ relocation intentions are driven by factors similar to those known to drive actual relocation behaviour and compares business managers’ relocation intentions with their companies’ actual relocation outcomes. We use a factorial survey conducted in 2018, which allows us to quantitatively analyse the impact of different Brexit scenarios and selected company characteristics on business managers’ likelihood to intend to relocate their UK business unit (or some functions thereof) to the EU and/or the US. Additionally, we collected qualitative secondary data on the actual relocation outcomes of the surveyed companies in February 2022 by investigating online platforms, such as LinkedIn, Companies House, and Crunchbase, as well as company webpages. The results of this mixed-methods approach highlight a significant variation in business managers’ intentions, and the importance of geographical and institutional proximity for relocation intentions and outcomes. We show that business managers’ relocation intentions are driven by factors similar to those known to drive actual relocation behaviour, such as their perception of the economic consequences of different Brexit scenarios, their territorial embeddedness, as well as their nationality. Most importantly, our findings indicate that, although factorial surveys are only moderately accurate when predicting the exact extent and destination of actual relocation, they are highly accurate when predicting whether a company relocates or not.

Open Access August 15, 2022

Post-Brexit: Do board interlocks make banks take similar relocation decisions?

Robert Panitz, Johannes Glückler

Page range: 127-141

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Because Brexit has implied a surge of relocation decisions by financial service firms during a short period of time, we examine the locational decisions of the financial industry in Europe. Adopting a relational perspective we analyze the association between similar relocation decisions of UK-based banks and the connectivity of their decision boards. Based on an analysis of relocation announcements in the media, press releases, and annual reports, as well as of interlocking directorships within the financial sector, our study connects research streams on relocation and internationalization with cross-board memberships and interlocks. Our findings suggest that the higher the competition between two banks and the stronger the connectivity in interlocking board memberships between them, the more likely are these banks to announce different relocation decisions. We interpret these robust findings as a behavior that effectively reduces competition for limited localized resources.

Open Access August 15, 2022

The impact of brexit on regional productivity in the UK

Bernard Fingleton, Ben Gardiner, Ron Martin, Luca Barbieri

Page range: 142-160

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Open Access August 15, 2022

Levelling Up and The Privileging of sub-national governance in England in the inter-Brexit space

Alexander Nurse, Olivier Sykes

Page range: 161-171

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Although the UK’s exit from the European Union – ‘Brexit’ – has overwhelmingly dominated the national political discourse since 2016 to the expense of nearly every other domestic issue, the policy agenda in the wake of this process is beginning to emerge. This paper examines this agenda, ostensibly supporting a programme of ‘levelling up’ which responds to the perceived root-causes of Brexit. In doing so, we consider the funding streams proposed by the UK Government – namely the Towns Fund, Shared Prosperity Fund and Levelling Up Funds – and examine the extent to which the rhetoric aligns with the reality of their allocation. In doing so, we also consider how, if at all, these schemes correspond to the European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF) they are intended to replace. This paper examines this period of change to consider how the Brexit process is mirroring, and indeed entrenching, these processes of uneven development. We find that the early indications suggest that the UK government is proceeding with funding allocations in a way which can overlook places which meet the technical funding criteria, and therefore indicates political favouring is at play.

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Volume 67 (2023)

Volume 66 (2022)

Volume 65 (2021)

Volume 64 (2020)

Volume 63 (2019)

Volume 62 (2018)

Volume 61 (2017)

Volume 60 (2016)

Volume 59 (2015)

Journal Impact Factor	2.0	2022, JCR (unified with Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	1.5	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
Journal Citation Indicator	1.95	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
CiteScore	3.3	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.551	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.732	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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Notes to Contributors
The Editorial Team invites the submission of manuscripts that fit the agenda and goals of ZFW to contribute to the conceptual and empirical advances within the field broadly defined, including neighboring disciplines. The submission process is conducted online through the Manuscript Central online platform.

Online Submission
The submission of a manuscript requires to upload a title page, the text manuscript prepared in Times New Roman 12, double-spaced with tables and figures (jpg, png and similar file types) on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. The title page should contain the name(s) of author(s), their affiliation(s) and address(es), the title (and subtitle) of the manuscript, a short abstract (max. 200 words) and 6-8 keywords.

Length

Manuscript type	Approximate number of characters/words
Research papers	60,000 characters (with spaces) or 9,000 words
Editorials (for special issues)	20,000 characters (with spaces) or 3,000 words
Book reviews	4,000 characters (with spaces) or 600 words

Refereeing
All submitted research papers undergo the double-blind peer review process of ZFW.

Style
Paper chapters and sub-chapters should be ordered using Arabic numerals. The journal especially invites English publications; German contributions are also welcome (see "Autorenrichtlinien"). The authors are responsible for grammar and style and should have their papers checked by a native speaker or copy editor prior to publication.

Figures and Tables
Figures and tables should be consistently numbered as Figure 1, 2, … or Table 1, 2, … Figures are to be submitted in print-ready form (min 300 dpi) considering the page size standards. Titles should not be embedded in the figures but remain separate in the text.

Citation
All references should be listed at the end of the contribution in a "References" section. This section can be preceded by "Acknowledgements" and/or followed by an "Appendix". Citations are largely based on the Harvard referencing style. Please consider the following suggestions and examples:
• If there are two authors, the in-text reference should be Duranton & Puga (2004).
• If there are three or more authors, the in-text reference should be Borghini et al. (2004).
For a full list of example citations please download the Author Guidelines.

Editorial

Editors

Harald Bathelt, University of Toronto, Canada

Sebastian Henn, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Scientific Board

Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Maximilian Buchholz,University of Toronto, Canada
Gordon Clark, University of Oxford, UK
Patrick Cohendet, HEC Montreal, Canada
Abigail Cooke, University at Buffalo, USA
Peter Dannenberg, University of Cologne, Germany
Gilles Duranton, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Yigit Evren, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Daniel Felsenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Elisa Giuliani, University of Pisa, Italy
Johannes Glückler, University of Munich, Germany
Britta Klagge, University of Bonn, Germany
Janelle Knox-Hayes, MIT, USA
Deborah Leslie, University of Toronto, Canada
Ron Martin, University of Cambridge, UK
Jerker Moodysson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne, Germany
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK
Rolf Sternberg, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Sally Weller, University of South Australia, Australia
Hans-Martin Zademach, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

Managing Editor
Hao Wang, University of Toronto, Canada

Founding Editor
Irmfried Siedentop

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Online ISSN: 2748-1964
Print ISSN: 2748-1956
Type: Journal
Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1957
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year
Keywords: Economic geography, geography, planning, economics, urban/regional economics, international business/management studies, organization studies, innovation studies, entrepreneurship studies, political economy, sociology, cultural studies