José Manuel Alonso, member of the EUFIREG Jean Monnet Module team, has published, together with Professor Rhys Andrews (Cardiff University), a research article in the journal Urban Affairs Review. In this article, entitled “Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England”, the authors analyze the impact of “city deals-pace-based agreements” between local and central entities to boost the economic results of urban areas, based on the case of English cities. Urban Affairs Review is a prestigious international journal in the field of urban studies, with an impact factor of 2.1 according to the Journal Citation Reports
The article, published here (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10780874231191702), can also be accessed in the following link: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161102/