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"Doing fieldwork at the north of the north of Britain" by Stefanos Ioannou
In December 2023 I travelled to Shetland for two weeks. The aim of my trip was to conduct fieldwork research for a project studying small...
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Mar 13, 20244 min read
Central banks, the climate crisis and the need for a ‘creative disruption’ (Sokol and Stephens 2023)
Central banks, the climate crisis and the need for a ‘creative disruption’ Authors: Martin Sokol and Jennie C. Stephens...
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Dec 6, 20235 min read
‘Global finance as the weapon of choice’ (By Gordon L Clark, Oxford University)
The following is a transcript of the lecture given by Professor Gordon Clark (Professorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of...
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Sep 5, 202210 min read
The role of capital markets in saving the planet and changing capitalism – just kidding (by Michael H. Grote and Matthew A. Zook)
Given the emphasis on ESG in the media and among the finance community one could easily believe that capital markets are a major...
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Mar 4, 20223 min read
The Local Effects of Monetary Policy (by Sergey Avetisyan)
The literature about financial geography is largely defined by three parts: financial geography (general), distance relations in banking,...
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May 21, 20211 min read
The pandemic city (by Martin Sokol)
The Covid-19 pandemic has reignited debates about the future of cities. Optimists hope that – in response to the pandemic – our cities...
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Apr 16, 20213 min read
Capital flows and geographically uneven economic dynamics: a monetary perspective (by Karsten Kohler)
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has led to a renewed interest in finance, financial instability, and financialisation among...
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Mar 9, 20212 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
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
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, 20185 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
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