Lotte Thomsen, Shyamain Wickramasingha, Adrian Smith
{"title":"Polycrisis and global production networks: a framework for understanding industry dynamics in times of accumulated uncertainty","authors":"Lotte Thomsen, Shyamain Wickramasingha, Adrian Smith","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag066","url":null,"abstract":"Global production networks (GPNs) are currently impacted by multiple crises. Yet, crises have received little attention in GPN scholarship. This article shows how the entangled drivers of polycrisis affect the economic geographies of suppliers and their integration into GPNs. It develops an analytical framework for exploration of accumulated uncertainties in conjunctural moments of polycrisis. The management of unknown ‘uncertainties’ other than ‘risk’ for lead firms is a key element. Focusing on Bangladesh’s apparel industry, this article explores the industry’s responses and struggles, and provides insights into the wider processes of inclusion and exclusion in the global economy during polycrisis.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149221367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industrialization and social mobility within a city: evidence from interwar Turin","authors":"Giacomo Plevani","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag073","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article asks whether industrialization raises intergenerational mobility within cities. I study Turin, a major Italian industrial hub, using repeated 5 per cent samples of the 1911, 1921, and 1936 population censuses digitized from household family sheets. I construct occupation-based earnings scores and measure relative mobility with the Information Content of Surnames (ICS). Citywide ICS falls by about one-half, and upward mobility from the bottom rises. These gains are sharply concentrated among residents of the industrial belt, where mechanical and metallurgical jobs expand. Area-level ICS measures surname–occupation sorting among current residents rather than childhood exposure to neighborhoods; the evidence indicates that industrialization operated through both local occupational upgrading and within-city reallocation toward the expanding industrial belt.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149209724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering Cornelia Staritz: contributions to global production network and crisis research agendas","authors":"Felix Maile,Adrian Smith","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This short piece is to remember the seminal and influential work of Cornelia Staritz (1980-2025). Cornelia Staritz's work shaped debates concerning crises and global production networks and global value chains over many years and made three primary contributions, highlighted here. First, her work on the financialization of global commodity markets allows us to connect shocks and disruptions emerging from global financial markets down to the commodity export and to farm level. Second, her work on the apparel industry shows us how multiple crises and competitive pressures both enable and limit the agency of different actors in a global production network. Third, her research on “critical minerals” illustrates how key responses to climate change interacts with the making of financial infrastructures to produce a surge in mining and new “green” extractive frontiers.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time use and city size","authors":"Seongmoon Cho,Andrii Parkhomenko","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We study how time use varies with city size. Residents of larger cities spend more time traveling and less time on leisure and home chores, and there is heterogeneity by gender, marital status, presence of children, income, and education. These differences are accounted for by city size rather than sorting on observables. We find that time allocation in larger cities is associated with different experienced well-being and that accounting for time use differences implies a reduction in the city-size wage premium of one-quarter. We also show that time use differences narrowed early in the COVID-19 pandemic but reemerged by 2022.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149091323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John James Loomis,Khalid Nadvi,José Antônio Puppim de Oliveira
{"title":"Subnational policy and sustainability in southern-led global value chains: a comparative study of sugarcane and cosmetics in Brazil","authors":"John James Loomis,Khalid Nadvi,José Antônio Puppim de Oliveira","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How global value chains (GVCs) effect, and engage with, environmental and social sustainability is much studied. Yet, understanding how subnational institutional dynamics influence sustainability responses remains thin. Through comparative analysis of Brazil’s sugarcane and cosmetics sectors in two distinct states, we examine the role of subnational institutional capacity. São Paulo’s strong institutional scaffolding supports technological and circular innovations, while Amazonas’ relative institutional voids produce fragmented and uneven outcomes. Our findings contribute to economic geography debates on subnational governance by showing that sustainability outcomes in Southern-led GVCs are contingent upon interactions between institutional capacity, at multiple scales, and sector-specific GVC dynamics.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149091355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavioral responses to spatial tax notches in the retail gasoline market","authors":"Carlos Hurtado","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract I document long-run spatial distortions at U.S. state borders, where gasoline excise taxes change discretely. Using daily prices and locations for the near-universe of U.S. gasoline retailers, I apply a geographic regression discontinuity and a two-step fixed-effects analysis. At the border, high-tax-side retailer density is 17% lower. The price-tax associations are strictly below one-for-one at 63%–77%, compared to 84%–89% on the low-tax side, indistinguishable from one-for-one. These gaps close within 15 miles inland. This asymmetry reveals how cross-border competition splits the tax burden between firms and consumers.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149049726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of social connections in the racial segregation of US cities","authors":"Andreas Diemer,Tanner Regan,Cheng Keat Tang","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We study the extent of segregation in the social space of urban America. We measure segregation as the (lack of) actual personal connections between neighbourhoods as opposed to conventional measures that assume the strength of these connections. We distinguish social segregation from geographical definitions of segregation, building and comparing city-level indices of each. We apply our measures to the seventy-five largest MSAs in the USA. Cities like Miami, Washington DC, and Cincinnati rank higher in social segregation than they do based on the conventional residential isolation, while New Orleans, San Francisco, and Richmond fall in ranks. Conditional on residential segregation, cities with more institutions that foster social cohesion (churches and community associations) are less socially segregated. We also decompose social segregation into residential, within-neighbourhood, and cross-neighbourhood interaction components, revealing that while social ties mirror residential patterns, geographically broader networks can partially offset residential isolation. Examining heterogeneity across racial minority groups, we find variation in social isolation with Black individuals being relatively more socially segregated than Hispanic and Asian minorities. Our results suggest that social connections, beyond residential geography, are important for understanding racial segregation in America.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149049725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The power to price: pricing regimes and governance of the cobalt global production network","authors":"Aleksandra Wojewska","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag063","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Prices are central to how commodity global production networks (GPNs) function, yet price-making rarely features as an object of theoretical and empirical inquiry. This paper conceptualizes price-making as a key mechanism of GPN governance, focusing on how world prices are constructed and embedded across production, trade, and finance. It introduces the concept of pricing regimes to analyse configurations of price-making authority, participation, and price risk distribution over time. In the case of cobalt GPN, the paper traces a shift from producer-led price setting to contemporary benchmark-based systems centred on price reporting agencies and financial market infrastructures. The paper shows how price-making authority has become dislocated from sites of production and embedded in global trade and financial centres, altering the governance structures of the GPN. While participation in price-making has expanded, important opacities remain, and benchmark-linked pricing redistributes exposure to volatility across the network.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149049727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard Baldwin,Rebecca Freeman,Angelos Theodorakopoulos
{"title":"Assessing risk: a toolkit for measuring regional supply-chain exposure to global shocks","authors":"Richard Baldwin,Rebecca Freeman,Angelos Theodorakopoulos","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag065","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article sheds light on the complexities of global supply chains’ (GSCs) subnational dimensions, including how international shocks propagate spatially. It develops a systematic approach or toolkit for analyzing how global shocks affect the regional distribution of GSCs. Using the toolkit, it derives a family of GSC indicators that distinguish between import- and export-side exposure, direct (face-value) and indirect (hidden exposure) linkages, and gross versus value-added flows. The article then applies the indicators to multiregional input–output data to highlight how global shocks propagate unevenly across regions and how impacts vary with the nature of the shock and a region’s type of exposure.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149022029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flood risk information, housing markets, and spatial inequality","authors":"Allan Beltran,Karlygash Kuralbayeva,Eileen Tipoe","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag064","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines how housing markets respond to nearby floods that do not directly damage properties, and whether these responses differ across more- and less-deprived neighbourhoods in England between 2010 and 2018. Nearby floods increase time-on-market everywhere, but price effects vary systematically by deprivation: in more-deprived areas, prices fall, consistent with risk-related price revaluation and weaker seller bargaining power, while in less-deprived areas prices remain broadly stable. The implied short-run risk-information discounts are about 3.8 per cent in more-deprived neighbourhoods and 1.2 per cent in less-deprived ones, summarizing how flood-related risk information is capitalized jointly into prices and selling times.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149022038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}