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Welcome to FinGeo's News & Thoughts, your hub for financial geography insights. Explore where financial landscapes meet geographic trends. Stay informed, inspired, and navigate the dynamic intersections of money globally. Dive into our blog for analysis, updates, and a deeper understanding of global financial geography.
The bridging role of Hong Kong for Chinese firms’ integrating into global financial networks (by Cheng Fang and Fenghua Pan)
— Cheng Fang and Fenghua Pan — The recent social unrest in Hong Kong, which began in 2019, has reignited debates about Hong Kong’s future...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read
Money and Borders (by Mariana Santos and David Bassens)
– Mariana Santos and David Bassens – The constitutive importance of space to money and financial relations and practices has been widely...
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Oct 28, 20201 min read
Financialization and the authoritarian state: the case of Russia (by Anna Mishura and Svetlana Ageeva)
– Anna Mishura and Svetlana Ageeva Financialization as a global process can take on specific forms in economy with a state that has signs...
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Sep 15, 20202 min read
Geofinance between national and firm internationalization strategies: an analysis of the Italian banking system across borders (by Silvia Grandi and Christian Sellar)
– Silvia Grandi and Christian Sellar – The relationship between governmental economic policies, the international strategies of banks,...
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Apr 29, 20202 min read
From a pandemic to a global financial meltdown? (by Martin Sokol)
– Martin Sokol – What will be the economic consequences of the pandemic? Are we heading for a wide-spread economic collapse? Is a global...
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Apr 29, 20204 min read
Economic Development and Variegated Financialization in Emerging Economies (by Ewa Karwowski )
– Ewa Karwowski – Some academics and economic commentators have argued that we are living in an age of ‘de-globalisation’. Given a...
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Oct 22, 20192 min read
Lead Firms and Sectoral Resilience: How Goldman Sachs Weathered the Global Financial Crisis
—Michael A. Urban, Vladimír Pažitka, Stefanos Ioannou and Dariusz Wójcik— The concept of economic resilience finds its roots in...
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Jun 19, 20193 min read
Financial Geographies of Real Estate and the City
– Manuel B. Aalbers – Financial geography is often understood as the geographies of money and finance, but in my approach financial...
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Jan 21, 20192 min read
There is no Alternative: SWIFT as Infrastructure Intermediary in Global Financial Markets
– Sabine Dörry, Gary Robinson and Ben Derudder – A decade on from the financial crisis, it has become common practice to look back on...
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Jan 21, 20192 min read
The Networked Structure of Tax Havens
– Thomas Sigler and Rory Crofts – The motivation to write this paper was twofold. In part, it was personal curiosity. Between the two...
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Dec 19, 20182 min read
Building Financial Resilience: Migrant Economies of Charitable Giving
– Al James, Kavita Datta, Jane Pollard and Quman Akli – A decade on from the financial crisis, and despite some initial murmurings about...
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Nov 14, 20183 min read
Does spatial concentration of the Russian banking sector hinder lending to peripheral regions and SM
– Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura – For Russia, the geographical unevenness in the financial development is obvious. There are marked...
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Nov 14, 20183 min read
Reversing neoliberal subjectification. Practicing collective dis-identification and putting life in common.
– Cesare Di Feliciantonio – In the last decades homeownership has been increasingly promoted by policy-makers, buying a house seen as an...
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Nov 14, 20182 min read
Algorithms and the Anthropocene – Finance, Sustainability and the Promise and Hazards of New Financial Technologies
– Thomas Skou Grindsted – Since the global financial crises (2007-2009), we have experienced one big crash with a temporality of years...
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Oct 8, 20182 min read
International Financial Centres After the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit
– Dariusz Wójcik – It has been ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers unleashed panic in financial markets, marking the eruption...
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Sep 24, 20184 min read
Financial integration in Europe, a geographer’s perspective
– Michiel van Meeteren – One thing which has increasingly bugged me since I started researching EU financial integration is how...
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Jul 12, 20184 min read
Impact investing in Pakistan: The role of private debt and shadow banking in financing development
– Juvaria Jafri – Philanthrocapitalism rests on the notion that philanthropy can be more successful when it is more like business. This...
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Jul 12, 20183 min read
Philanthro-capitalism, social enterprises, and global development
– Dennis Stolz and Karen P.Y. Lai – While the 2008 global financial crisis created financial meltdown as well as socio-economic crisis of...
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Mar 28, 20182 min read
Creating institutional power in financialised economies: The firm-profession nexus of advanced business services
– Sabine Dörry – Despite major crises, financial capitalism is enjoying a period of relative stability. Financial powers – underpinned by...
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Mar 9, 20183 min read
Financialising the State: Recent developments in fiscal and monetary policy
– Ewa Karwowski, Marcos Centurion-Vicencio – The financialisation of the state is widely assumed but rarely analysed in detail. After all...
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Feb 6, 20183 min read
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