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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
71
Citations
47081
World Ranking
430
National Ranking
48

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Michael Storper is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, prominently within Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Social Sciences, with a focus on several interconnected subfields.

The main subfields in which Storper has contributed include Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Management of Technology and Innovation. This broad disciplinary scope supports their work in topics related to regional and urban development.

Storper's key areas of research cover topics such as:

  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Regional resilience and development
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

Several recent publications illustrate their research focus and scholarly activity. Selected papers include:

  • "Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world" (2021), published in Urban Studies
  • "The Regional Development Trap in Europe" (2022), published in Economic Geography
  • "Is urbanisation in the Global South fundamentally different? Comparative global urban analysis for the 21st century" (2022), published in Urban Studies
  • "The changing geography of social mobility in the United States" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Superstar cities and left-behind places: disruptive innovation, labor demand, and interregional inequality" (2025), published in London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online

Storper's research has appeared frequently in academic journals such as:

  • Urban Studies
  • Economic Geography
  • Journal of Economic Geography
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authorship with several researchers, including:

  • Thomas Kemeny (7 joint publications)
  • Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (4 joint publications)
  • Simona Iammarino (2 joint publications)
  • Riccardo Crescenzi (2 joint publications)
  • Harald Bathelt (2 joint publications)

This profile highlights Storper's engagement with topics that investigate spatial economic dynamics, urban challenges, and regional policies from an interdisciplinary perspective combining economics, social sciences, and political economy.

Best Publications

  • The regional world : territorial development in a global economy

    Michael Storper

  • Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy

    Michael Storper;Michael Storper;Anthony J. Venables

  • The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later The Region as a Nexus of Untraded Interdependencies

    Michael Storper

  • The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth

    Michael Storper;Richard Walker

  • Regions, globalization, development

    Allen J. Scott;Michael Storper

  • Rethinking human capital, creativity and urban growth

    Michael Storper;Allen J. Scott

  • Worlds of Production: The Action Frameworks of the Economy

    Robert Salais;Michael Storper

  • The Economic Geography of the Internet Age

    Edward E. Leamer;Michael Storper

  • The Limits to Globalization: Technology Districts and International Trade

    Michael Storper

  • The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory

    Allen J. Scott;Michael Storper

  • Flexibility, hierarchy and regional development: The changing structure of industrial production systems and their forms of governance in the 1990s

    Michael Storper;Bennett Harrison

  • Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications

    Simona Iammarino;Andrés Rodriguez-Pose;Michael Storper

  • The Regional World

    Harvey Molotch;Michael Storper

  • The geographical foundations and social regulation of flexible production complexes.

    M. Storper

  • Regional ‘Worlds’ of Production: Learning and Innovation in the Technology Districts of France, Italy and the USA

    Michael Storper

  • The transition to flexible specialisation in the US film industry: external economice the division of labour, and the crossing of industrial divides

    Michael Storper

  • Keys to the City

    Michael Storper

  • Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism

    John O'Loughlin;Allen J. Scott;Michael Storper

  • Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development

    Michael Storper

  • The territorial dynamics of innovation: a Europe-United States Comparative Analysis

    Riccardo Crescenzi;Andrés Rodríguez-Pose;Michael Storper

  • Global city regions

    Allen J. Scott;John Agnew;Edward W. Soja;Michael Storper

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen J. Scott
Allen J. Scott University of California, Los Angeles
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose London School of Economics and Political Science
Edward E. Leamer
Edward E. Leamer University of California, Los Angeles
Gilles Duranton
Gilles Duranton University of Pennsylvania
Simona Iammarino
Simona Iammarino London School of Economics and Political Science
Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables University of Manchester
Michael Batty
Michael Batty University College London
Frank van Oort
Frank van Oort Erasmus University Rotterdam
Meric S. Gertler
Meric S. Gertler University of Toronto
Andrew Sayer
Andrew Sayer Lancaster University

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