Central banks, the climate crisis and the need for a ‘creative disruption’ Authors:  Martin Sokol and Jennie C. Stephens _________________________________________________________________________ How should central banks respond to the worsening climate crisis that threatens to destabilise the economy and society? As climate disruptions become more frequent and intense, it seems clear that changes in central banks and […]

The following is a transcript of the lecture given by Professor Gordon Clark (Professorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) at the FinGeo sponsored plenary session on 7th June 2022. This was held during the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin, Ireland. Thank you for your kind introduction. I am very […]

Given the emphasis on ESG in the media and among the finance community one could easily believe that capital markets are a major contributor to the goal of limiting global warming. We argue this perception is largely false; a narrative strongly pushed by the finance industry to highlight green initiatives and in so doing, block […]

The European Bank for Restructuring and Development (EBRD) is one of the least visible and most controversial regional development banks. Its unique features include its political mission to advance liberal market transition in countries committed to democratization, as well as an exceptionally large and diverse shareholder structure that comprises 71 countries (including US, Japan, China, […]

The stock of Chinese foreign direct investment into the advanced capitalist economies has grown exponentially in the past decades, generating a large body of policy and popular discourse around the question of Chinese political influence in global financial markets. Scrutiny has almost exclusively fallen on the investment activities of Chinese sovereign wealth funds and state-owned […]

Some people might consider the ‘brick-and-mortar’ bank branch to be an obsolete concept destined to become extinct. Almost every decade, it has been predicted that technology will render the physical presence of banks unnecessary. However, the bank branch has yet to be replaced as the primary source of soft information with an intrinsic spatial dimension. […]

Financial nationalism is on the rise. Countries ranging from the United States, Russia, China, and Taiwan, to Bolivia and Hungary embrace financial nationalist policies although to varying degrees. For scholars, a core intellectual puzzle is to explain these governments’ sustained capacity to pursue financial nationalism in an era when the interconnectedness of global financial markets […]

The literature about financial geography is largely defined by three parts: financial geography (general), distance relations in banking, and location analysis of commercial banks. Two important parts of financial geography are, however, rarely discussed in their relationship to each other: financial centers and monetary policy. This paper is devoted to an analysis of the literature […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has reignited debates about the future of cities. Optimists hope that – in response to the pandemic – our cities can become greener, healthier, smarter, more pleasant to work and live in, more economically resilient and more sustainable. But let’s just imagine for a moment that, for whatever reason (vaccine supply delays; […]