Petrovici, N., & Ban, C. (2025). Peri-urban Tides and archipelagos: Labour Flows and Aggregate Demand in Romania’s Foreign Investment-driven Spatial Economy. Cities, 167, 106330.
Abstract: This paper examines how Romania’s foreign investment-driven growth model reshaped population patterns through spatial concentration and labour mobilisation in peri-urban areas. Building on the distinctive concepts of peri-urban tides and peri-urban archipelagos, we analyse how foreign-owned manufacturing and business services reconfigure labour flows and residential expansion across urban, peri-urban, and rural municipalities. Using SARAR-SUR […]
Cornel Ban
Cornel Ban is an associate professor of International Political economy at Copenhagen Business School. Prior to this he was a Reader at City University of London, assistant professor at Boston University and research fellow at Brown University in the United States. He wrote two books and two dozen articles and book chapters on the politics […]
Ban, C., Medve-Balint, G., & Volintiru, C. (2025). The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities. Competition & Change, 29(3-4), 506-526.
Abstract: Comparative political economists have been late to acknowledge the role of municipalities in industrial policy. Given that industrial policy is traditionally the province of central governments, when and why do cities follow national industrial policy priorities and when and why do they deviate from them? To address the question, the article compares three middle-sized […]