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2021/05/18 – Yanpeng Jiang “The financialization of Chinese cities and the role of urban investment and development companies
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The financialisation of Chinese cities and the role of urban investment and...
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Apr 20, 20213 min read
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2021/05/04 – Markus Hesse “The Urban Geography of Luxembourg’s Financial Centre”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Open the fortress! When financial centre and urban development collide – the case...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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30/05/2018 FinGeo Spring School
FinGeo Spring School 2018 FinGeo Spring School 30 May – 2 June 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium The First FINGEO Spring...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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2nd FinGeo Summer School
2nd FinGeo Summer School 21 – 24 June, 2021 Online The four-day FinGeo Summer School is intended for early career scholars, e.g....
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Apr 19, 20214 min read
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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
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International Review of Financial Analysis Special Issue: Globally sustainable banking & finance in support of evidence-based policy making
We are delighted to invite you to submit towards our conference and a special issue in International Review of Financial Analysis (1st of...
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Apr 7, 20217 min read
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21/04/2021 The ‘Strong Leader’ Trap: The Unintended Consequence of China’s Global Investment Strategy
21 April 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm (Singapore Standard Time). Register via Zoom : https://nus-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu-vrToqGNw...
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Mar 26, 20211 min read
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2021/03/30 – Raquel Rolnik: Post 2008 financialized housing geographies: from above, from below
On the 30th March 2021, 13h-14h BST , Raquel Rolnik (University of Sao Paulo) will present to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series....
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Mar 22, 20212 min read
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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
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Fintech, Philanthropy and Development: Emerging Issues with Digital Inclusion (by Juvaria Jafri)
Among the features of a global agenda centred on a finance-philanthropy-development nexus is a collaborative approach to advancing...
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Mar 9, 20213 min read
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2021/03/16 – Vincent Guermond: Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of M
On the 16th March 2021, Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway) presented to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series. His talk was entitled :...
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Mar 1, 20212 min read
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CfP – 2021 RSA Regions in Recovery e-festival (special session) – FINancial GEOgraphies
FinGeo will be hosting a special session (SS34 FINGEO) at the 2021 RSA regions in Recovery e-festival (2-18 June 2021) and invite...
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Feb 23, 20212 min read
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Chinese State-owned bank expansion into Europe: Bank branches and subsidiaries (by Paolo Balmas and Sabine Dörry
– Paolo Balmas and Sabine Dörry – China’s global ambitions are being expressed, among others, by its huge infrastructure project ‘Belt...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
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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
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Call for Papers – Warwick Critical Finance: Manuscript development workshop 2.0
Call for Papers – Warwick Critical Finance: Manuscript development workshop 2.0 For Early Career Researchers, writing and publishing...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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