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2022/04/04 | FinGeo ECR Monthly Coffee meeting – guest speaker | Dariusz Wójcik |
FinGeo Early Career Researchers monthly coffee meeting: Mon 4th April (4 pm BST, London) The ECR Monthly coffee meeting is a one-hour...
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Mar 28, 20221 min read
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2022/08/06 Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?
We’re organizing a workshop on ‘Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?’ at the Development Studies...
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Mar 4, 20221 min read
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WAIFC Young Academic Award
Young Academic Award, hosted by The World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC) invites young academics to submit papers or...
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Mar 4, 20222 min read
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Imperial College London | Climate Investment Challenge 2022 | Invitation to Apply
The Climate Investment Challenge, a worldwide pitch competition created at the Imperial College Business School. The aim of the...
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Mar 4, 20221 min read
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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
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From transition bank to EU neighborhood policy bank: EBRD’s commitment change in Egypt (by Dóra Piro
The European Bank for Restructuring and Development (EBRD) is one of the least visible and most controversial regional development banks....
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Mar 4, 20223 min read
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2022/03/08 |Ludovico Rella| An ecology of Money Infrastructures
This paper proposes an investigation of blockchain technologies – understood as money infrastructures – from the point of view of the...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
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2022/04/12 |Manuel Wirth| Doing Good with Finance? Impact investing and Marketization of the Youth Homelessness in the UK
In this talk, I present findings from my dissertation in which I studied the implementation of a social policy tool called the Social...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
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7-10/06/2022 Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin (Call for papers)
With financial geographies as one of the core themes of the forthcoming Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin (7-10 June...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read
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FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2021
This year’s winners are… Ludovico Rella (Durham University) Money’s Infrastructures: Blockchain Technologies and the Ecologies of the...
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Jan 10, 20221 min read
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Global financial professionals and the China Investment Corporation: Handmaidens to the global expan
The stock of Chinese foreign direct investment into the advanced capitalist economies has grown exponentially in the past decades,...
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Dec 17, 20213 min read
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2021/12/14 Monthly Drink Event (online) – Sabine Dörry (guest speaker)
Monthly Drink event is a one-hour event being hosted online by FinGeo . It brings together early career researchers and PhD students,...
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Dec 7, 20211 min read
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2021/12/08 | FinGeo Annual General Meeting (AGM) Wed 8th Dec 2021
FinGeo’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be Wednesday 8th December 2021 at 12noon GMT (London) via Zoom, 12.00-13.30 GMT (07.00-08.30...
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Dec 6, 20211 min read
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2021/11/25 Monthly Coffee/Tea Event (online) – Karen Lai (guest speaker)
Monthly coffee/tea event – is a one-hour event being hosted online by FinGeo . It brings together early career researchers and PhD...
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Nov 18, 20211 min read
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2 x Post-Doctoral Researchers in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000, University of Oxford
Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 | The University of Oxford We are seeking two Post-Doctoral Researchers to join the team working...
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Nov 18, 20211 min read
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2021/12/13 Financing Care: Labour Rights Amid New Models of Investment
13 December 2021 16.00-17.30 UK GMT (online) As care needs rise, models of financial investment in the social care sector are...
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Nov 16, 20211 min read
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2021/11/19 Valuing the City Symposium
A full-day symposium on the occasion of the publication of Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and...
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Nov 10, 20212 min read
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2021/12/13 – Andrew Leyshon “Neoliberal Fairy Tales and Authoritarian Realpolitik: Regul
Register for free here This paper outlines the ways in which sovereign regulatory authorities are responding to the challenge of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/11/29 – Susan Soederberg “Governing Urban Displacements in Global Capitalism”
Register for free here The scarcity of affordable rental housing has become a defining social issue with an increasing number of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/11/15 – Radha Upadhyaya “Employing Capital: Patient Capital and Labour Relations in Kenya's Manufacturing Sector
Register for free here Generating decent employment plays a key role in the creation of a new social contract and social cohesion in...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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