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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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The geographies of financial activities within an emerging international financial center: the case
– Fenghua Pan, Sarah Hall, Hua Zhang – Despite Beijing being the well-known political center of China, its reputation as an international...
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Jan 14, 20181 min read
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Unfinished business: change in the US securities industry since 2008
Sculpture: Kristen Visbal – Photo: Federica Valabreg – Dariusz Wójcik, Theodor Cojoianu – On 7 March 2017, the eve of International...
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Nov 1, 20173 min read
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Geographical Changes in Influence of Stock Trading Centres around the 2007 Global Financial Crisis
– Boulis M. Ibrahim, Janusz Brzeszczyński, Arnab Bhattacharjee – The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007 was a major event and a key...
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Oct 4, 20172 min read
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The Geography of Tax Evasion
– Manuel B. Aalbers – What is it about? Taxation in general and tax evasion in particular are inherently geographical in nature but not...
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Sep 28, 20172 min read
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Geographical limits to arbitrage in the global oil market
– Michael H. Grote, Matthew Zook, Thomas Heidorn – For more than 30 years, the world’s main indices for oil prices – West Texas...
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Aug 4, 20173 min read
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The Increasing Financialization of China’s Urbanization
– Thierry Theurillat, James H. Lenzer Jr. & Hongyu Zhan – Mainland China is well known for its massive and rampant urban development,...
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Jul 7, 20172 min read
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