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2022/04/05 |Rachel N. Weber| Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic
5th April 2022, 17.30 BST, 18.30 CEST – Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic How can an unforeseen crisis like...
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Mar 30, 20222 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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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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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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2021/12/13 – 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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2021/10/25 – Zac Taylor “Urbanizing Climate Finance: Tracing the Insurance-linked Securi
Register for free here Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related property catastrophe reinsurance market instruments are increasingly...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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NUS Faculty position in Financial Geography (Full Professor level with tenure)
The Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) seeks to appoint an established research leader in the field of...
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Jul 5, 20211 min read
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Too-Much Branching: Cost of Debt of SMEs and Local Market Characteristics in Slovakia (by Maria Sir
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
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Conference on Finance’s Pandemic Promises: Questioning impact and the Covid-driven surge in sustainable investing
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Jul 1, 20211 min read
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2021/06/18 Regions in Recovery Global E-Festival: Financial Geographies of Brexit
Friday, June 18 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM GMT+1 Zoom (join the session) Chair: Dariusz Wójcik, Oxford University, UKGeography is central to...
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Jun 15, 20212 min read
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FinGeo Summer School Programme
The four-day FinGeo Summer School is intended for early career scholars, e.g. advanced PhD students, Postdocs and early career faculty...
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Jun 15, 20211 min read
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Vrije Universiteit Brussels PhD Researcher (1FTE/4 years/bursary) – The Emerging Geographies of FinTech
Cosmopolis: Centre for Urban Research (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) is seeking to attract a full-time junior researcher in the...
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Jun 7, 20212 min read
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2021/06/17- FinGeo – Financial Geographies of Regional and Urban Recovery
• SS34 I FINGEO. Financial Policies Thursday, 17 June 2021, 9:00 – 11:00 BST • SS34 II FINGEO. Financial Networks Thursday, 17 June 2021,...
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May 25, 20212 min read
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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
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2021/13/07 – Amy Horton “Care and financial fragility”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Care and financial fragility Care for ageing populations has been seen as a major...
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Apr 20, 20211 min read
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2021/06/15 – Sarah Hall “The economic geographies of Brexit and financial services”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The economic geographies of Brexit and financial services This paper analyses the...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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