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Communications Officer and Executive Committee Member – Global Network on Financial Geography
We are looking for a volunteer to join FinGeo team! The Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) is an open and interdisciplinary...
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May 16, 20182 min read
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2018/09/3 – 2018/09/4 – Coventry, UK – “Selling (critical) finance”: Getting your work published
“Selling (critical) finance”: Getting your work To be held on 3rd – 4th of September 2018 at the University of Warwick Agenda For Early...
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Mar 28, 20182 min read
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2018/07/24 – Cologne, Germany – Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Global Network on Financial Geography
The FinGeo Executive Committee is delighted to invite all current and prospective FinGeo members to the 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM)...
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Mar 12, 20181 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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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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PhD Candidate – The Geography of Corporate Financialization – Leuven, Belgium
The Division of Geography & Tourism at KU Leuven (Belgium) is looking for a full-time PhD candidate for 4 years. Together with a...
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Dec 11, 20173 min read
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2018/05/30 – 2018/06/02 – Brussels, Belgium – 1st FinGeo Spring School
First FINGEO Spring School 30 May – 2 June 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium *** Local Organizers: Manuel Aalbers (KU...
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Nov 24, 20174 min read
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2018/07/24 – 2018/07/28 – Cologne, Germany – 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography
Members of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) will chair a number of sessions at the 5th Global Conference on Economic...
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Nov 17, 201716 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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2018/05/28 – 2018/05/29 – Brussels, Belgium – 5th FinGeo Global Seminar
Fifth FINGEO Global Seminar “European Spaces of Financialization” 28-29 May 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium *** Local...
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Oct 2, 20178 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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2017/08/29 – 2017/09/01 – London, UK – Annual International RGS-IBG Conference
FinGeo supported a series of seven sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2017. The sessions were organised by financial geographers...
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Sep 8, 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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2017/11/09 – 2017/11/10 – Frankfurt, Germany – Financial Geography Lab 2017
This is the time of financial geographers’ life: A financial crisis, followed by an economic crisis, followed by a European sovereign...
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Jul 17, 20172 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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Financial Circuits: Cyclicality, Leakiness and Social Housing Finance in Ireland and Denmark
– Michael Byrne and Michelle Norris – Denmark and Ireland are both small, open economies and both countries experienced housing bubbles...
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Jul 6, 20174 min read
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Cluster dynamics of financial centres in the United Kingdom: Do connected firms grow faster?
– Vladimír Pažitka and Dariusz Wójcik – The aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC) has seen a sharp reduction in employment in...
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Jul 6, 20173 min read
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2017/06/06 – Dublin, Ireland – Geographies of Money and Finance: Where next?
Book Launch & Meet-the-Authors: Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance – edited by Ron Martin and Jane Pollard – Sponsored by...
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May 30, 20171 min read
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What is Financialization?
– Manuel B. Aalbers – Many financial geographers use the term “financialization”. But what is financialization? It clearly has to do with...
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Apr 4, 20173 min read
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