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Welcome to FinGeo's News & Thoughts, your hub for financial geography insights. Explore where financial landscapes meet geographic trends. Stay informed, inspired, and navigate the dynamic intersections of money globally. Dive into our blog for analysis, updates, and a deeper understanding of global financial geography.
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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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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