– Dennis Stolz and Karen P.Y. Lai – While the 2008 global financial crisis created financial meltdown as well as socio-economic crisis of unprecedented scale, the super-rich capitalist class is also using financial logics and instruments in philanthropy as a vehicle to soothe critics of global finance. With a new profit-oriented model of philanthropy, ultra-wealthy […]

– Sabine Dörry – Despite major crises, financial capitalism is enjoying a period of relative stability. Financial powers – underpinned by the financialisation imperative of the 21st-century capitalist order – are robust and dynamically reinforce the global system’s principal traits and values. The advanced business services (ABS) sector ties in closely with these dynamics and […]

– Ewa Karwowski, Marcos Centurion-Vicencio – The financialisation of the state is widely assumed but rarely analysed in detail. After all it is rather difficult to imagine that “the role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial institutions” (Epstein 2005: 3) can increase in importance without at least some support from public policy […]

– Fenghua Pan, Sarah Hall, Hua Zhang – Despite Beijing being the well-known political center of China, its reputation as an international financial center (IFC) lags behind that of Shanghai. In the past decade, the financial sector in Beijing has experienced unprecedented growth and Beijing has strengthened its competitiveness as a financial center. This paper […]

Analyses of the financial system from various disciplines has yet to fully explore the connections between the geopolitical and geoeconomic discourses shaping States’ public finance and foreign policy, the role and localization of financial institutions and the evolution of international patterns of firms. Such topics are becoming increasingly relevant, as evidenced in a speech held […]

– Dariusz Wójcik, Theodor Cojoianu – On 7 March 2017, the eve of International Women’s Day, State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation, issued a call to more than 3,500 companies they invest in on behalf of their clients to increase the number of women on corporate boards. At the […]

– Boulis M. Ibrahim, Janusz Brzeszczyński, Arnab Bhattacharjee – The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007 was a major event and a key milestone in the history of financial markets. Unparalleled in many respects, its economic consequences were stronger and its global impact wider than all earlier financial turmoil. In our paper, we analyse the […]

– Manuel B. Aalbers – What is it about? Taxation in general and tax evasion in particular are inherently geographical in nature but not a very popular area of research. In this article I present geographers’ research on offshore financial centres alongside the work of researchers from other disciplines to present an overview of what […]

– Michael H. Grote, Matthew Zook, Thomas Heidorn – For more than 30 years, the world’s main indices for oil prices – West Texas Intermediate Crude or WTI (delivered in Cushing, Oklahoma) and Brent Crude (delivered at four ports in the North Sea) –have moved in sync. This changed dramatically in 2011, when WTI started […]

– Thierry Theurillat, James H. Lenzer Jr. & Hongyu Zhan – Mainland China is well known for its massive and rampant urban development, looming property bubbles and ghost cities. How has this process of urbanization, which significantly contributes to its economic growth, been financed? For the vast majority of scholars focusing on urban China, land […]

– Michael Byrne and Michelle Norris – Denmark and Ireland are both small, open economies and both countries experienced housing bubbles followed by housing and financial busts between the late 1990s and the present day. While the nature and extent of the housing and financial crises experienced by each country differs (Ireland’s experience being significantly […]

– Vladimír Pažitka and Dariusz Wójcik – The aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC) has seen a sharp reduction in employment in financial services in the United Kingdom, shrinking bank balance sheets and reduction in global corporate finance and investment banking revenue. Underneath the veil of this grim picture, however, there was a lot […]