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FinGeo blog article series: Teaching Financial Geography in Higher Education.
This FinGeo blog article series is dedicated to the teaching of financial geography in higher education. Whilst research in financial geography has advanced considerably in recent years, there has been comparatively little discussion about how it is taught in higher education. This series contributes to this end by bringing together reflections from three teaching-active academics on their experiences in the classroom. Dr Araby Smyth of Mount Allison University reflects on t
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Jan 121 min read
Geographies of Finance with Undergraduate Students
Author: Dr. Araby Smyth, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University; email: asmyth@mta.ca I originally didn’t think much of financialization and thought the subject would be boring. I couldn’t have been more wrong. - Anonymous response from a student experience survey, winter 2025. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University (MtA), a public, mostly undergraduate, l
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Jan 127 min read
Teaching Financial Geography in Business Schools
Author: Dr. Paweł Węgrzyn, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Department of Economic Geography; e-mail: pwegrz@sgh.waw.pl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8963-2765 As an assistant professor teaching both capital markets and economic geography at a business-focused university, I find myself at a unique intersection of disciplines. This position allows me to introduce the spatial dimension of finance into both my economic geography courses and those concerning the functioning
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Jan 127 min read
Bringing Financial Geography into Economics Education
Author: Dr. Stefanos Ioannou, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Oxford Brookes University; email: sioannou@brookes.ac.uk For the past five years, I have been teaching economics at Oxford Brookes University, including a module on finance and economic development for third-year undergraduate students. This module has provided me with a platform to show students how financial geography enriches economic analysis. At the start of the module, I cover basic economic development mode
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Jan 123 min read
"The Invisible Lifeline: Why Everyday Banking Must Be Treated as Critical National Infrastructure" (by Andra Sonea)
Fieldwork photo by the author (UK). London has long been one of the world’s leading financial centres and the birthplace of a global fintech ecosystem. Even after Brexit, financial services remain a cornerstone of the UK economy, guided by some of the most forward-thinking regulators worldwide. One might assume, then, that access to basic banking defined as the ability to manage a current account, withdraw cash, deposit funds, and make payments, is a given. It isn’t. In my Ph
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Nov 1, 20254 min read
"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
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
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
Too-Much Branching: Cost of Debt of SMEs and Local Market Characteristics in Slovakia (by Maria Siranova and Oliver Rafaj)
Some people might consider the ‘brick-and-mortar’ bank branch to be an obsolete concept destined to become extinct. Almost every decade,...
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
Financial nationalism and democracy: Evaluating financial nationalism in light of post-crisis theories of financial power in Hungary
Financial nationalism is on the rise. Countries ranging from the United States, Russia, China, and Taiwan, to Bolivia and Hungary embrace...
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May 21, 20212 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 15, 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
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
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
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
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