How does finance shape geopolitical power?

Our new Finance & Space special collection brings together work examining how financial systems underpin contemporary state power and global competition.

Browse the collection here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

Where does debt-driven growth actually happen?

New research in Finance & Space finds it may not be where debt is taken on, but elsewhere in the system.

Read James Wood's 'The spatial dynamics of America’s debt-driven growth model' here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Carbon lock-in: why international financial centres matter for post-carbon transitions International financial centres (IFCs) are not merely sites where global capital concentrates; they are legal-economic architectures that actively reproduce carbon lock-in. This commentary conceptu...

Why are international finance centres absent from debates on post-carbon transitions?

In this new commentary, Sabine Dörry calls for forensic research into the institutional structures through which IFCs constrain rapid and just transitions.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

Alternative remittances to Venezuela: ad hoc technological diffusion and monetary pluralism Venezuelan migrants have historically been excluded from formal money transfer systems. Consequently, the diaspora has a strong culture of using alternative remittance methods. This article examine...

New in Finance and Space: Daniel Robins on how Venezuelan migrants repurpose US FinTech for remittances. A striking case of monetary pluralism from the ground up.

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📢 New call for submissions
Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure and Policy Making

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These articles on Climate Governance and finace examine how risks become assets, adaptation becomes transparency, and intermediaries reshape who controls climate planning:

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How is law used to make voluntary carbon markets liquid?

Lukas Bogner traces how UNIDROIT's standardisation of carbon credits reshapes property rights in the Global South and drives jurisdictional competition in the Global North.

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The FDI location motive and effectiveness of tax incentives: evidence for Indonesia Tax incentives are used to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), especially in less-developed countries, but the evidence for their effect is mixed. Recently, it has been argued that these incen...

Do tax incentives attract foreign investment or just signal that a government is trying?

Sudiana, Jones and Wren survey of 224 foreign-owned plants in Indonesia find that labour costs drive location but incentives don't.

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Where do green financial flows land? Why does green finance land where it does? What does it produce when it “hits the ground”?

Find out in our new special issue on 'Green finance and capital landing' edited by Antoine Ducastel & Bregje Van Veelen: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

Positioning for net-zero: Singapore’s extraterritorial agency in global production and financial networks The restructuring of global production networks (GPNs) towards decarbonisation is tightly coupled with a parallel transformation of global financial networks (GFNs), yet scholarship has given limit...

NEW in Finance and Space: How does Singapore maintain its position as Asia's trade & finance hub amid net-zero transitions?

Emma Galbraith and Javier Revilla Diez reveal mechanisms of extraterritorial agency in leveraging SE Asia's assets

The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has become a site of struggle, around which a range of actors at multiple scales and in different legal, political and financial spheres are mob...

How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield?

Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.

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Alexander Kristiansen & Patrik Ström shows how DeFi mirrors offshore finance with arbitrage, opacity, and power concentrated in new hands

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Has DeFi really decentralised real estate?

Ang Liu’s new article in Finance & Space shows the Aspen Coin case mostly recentralises ownership rather than democratising it:

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ECB’s QE didn’t realign Eurozone finance but fuelled capital switching abroad. What does this mean for Europe’s financial sovereignty?

Access David Bassens & Duncan Lindo latest here:
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Multi-Level Phenomena in Financial Geography: Hierarchies, Systems, and Reflexivity This special issue invites contributions on multi-level phenomena in financial geography.

📣 Special Issue Call for Papers: "Multi-Level Phenomena in Financial Geography: Hierarchies, Systems, and Reflexivity" organised by Franziska Sohns: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Submit your abstracts by 31st December

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Ludovico Rella shows how banks are using blockchain and federated learning to turn our data (and its risks) into monetisable synthetic datasets.

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How Digital Colonialism Threatens Kenya’s Silicon Savannah | TechPolicy.Press Global power asymmetries are reshaping, and potentially undermining, Kenya's technological future, Ben Mkalama and Marine Ragnet write.

Some excellent recent work by my research partner Ben Mkalama.

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Our own recent works @financeandspace.bsky.social and SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social :
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Who gets climate finance and who gets shut out?

New Finance & Space article from Jessie Poon, Stacy-ann Robinson & Peng Peng shows donor networks favour less-vulnerable, well-connected countries, while highly climate-vulnerable nations struggle to access funds.

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The geography of housing boom and bust cycles This study examines the synchronisation of housing boom and bust cycles across 51 countries from 2007-Q3 to 2022-Q4, focusing on the period after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). While previous r...

🏘️ NEW PAPER: How are housing booms & busts synchronized globally?

Hong and Wójcik's study of 51 countries reveals gloabl power asymmetries persist.

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Ruth Buck, Emily Rosenman and Louisa Holmes visualise Purdue Pharma's corporate ownersihp structure: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Their interactive diagram allows users to investigate the financial processes beneath the opioid epidemic: rkbuck1.github.io/finviz/

In critical dialogue with @nickbernards.bsky.social’s recent book 'Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'

Challenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geography Financialisation is a key concept in financial geography, used to explain various phenomena. But have we sufficiently explained financialisation? Nick Bernards’ recent book, Fictions of Financializ...

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Why does financialisation happen — and who benefits?
Hannah Hasenberger digs into the politics behind state financialisation

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Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economy The standard sustainable finance agenda portrays the investment world as a change agent for the green transformation of the economy. It does so by demanding more transparency and information for a ...

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“Sustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economy”

Lisa Knoll, Ulrich Klüh, Ilias Naji & Felix Rossmann examines how EU sustainable finance rules ‘land’ in Germany’s regional banking and SME networks.

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Oriane Lafuente-Sampietro & Ariane Reyns examine how territorial & socioeconomic factors shape the spread of mutual credit systems using Sardex as a case study of decentralised finance in Italy.
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Challenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geography Financialisation is a key concept in financial geography, used to explain various phenomena. But have we sufficiently explained financialisation? Nick Bernards’ recent book, Fictions of Financializ...

Really cool to see this very thoughtful critical essay on Fictions of Financialization, by Hannah Hasenberger, in @financeandspace.bsky.social!

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For centuries, Mumbai’s Koli fishing communities shaped life by the tides 🌊🐟. Their Koliwadas are more than hamlets, they’re vernacular regions of caste, craft & ecology.
Read Ayush Srivastava & Asma Sayyad’s RSA Summer Series blog 👇
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The mBridge CBDC project (China, HK, Thailand, UAE, Saudi Arabia) reveals how states are reshaping global finance at the crossroads of monetary & technological sovereignty.

New in Finance & Space from Jing Chu, Cheng Fang & Karen P. Y. Lai
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How is debt reshaping African cities?

In Malawi, the bond financing of roads in Lilongwe challenges the idea of African cities as “unbankable.”

👉 Matthew Lane, Evance Mwathunga & Jennifer Robinson in Finance & Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

Latin America is the most crisis-prone region in the world. But why?

In this new Finance & Space article, Belén Villegas Plá argues it is not just weak institutions but financial subordination driving political volatility.

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