Geofinance between Political and Financial Geographies

A Focus on the Semi-Periphery of the Global Financial System

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvSilvia Grandi,Christian Sellar,Juvaria Jafri

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This timely book offers important new insights into the boundaries between political and financial geographies, focusing on the links between the changing strategies, policies and institutions of the state. It investigates banks and other financial institutions affected by both state policies and a globalizing financial system, and the financial resources available to firms as well as households. In so doing, the book highlights how an empirical focus on the semi-periphery of the financial system may generate new perspectives on the entanglement between geopolitics and finance.Chapters explore a range of place-specific relations, highlighting the impact of state-led reforms, the importance of models, innovation and adaptation to local conditions, and bank intermediation. Conceptually, the book engages with insights from a variety of disciplines in order to explore the connections between geo-political and geo-economic discourses, public finance and foreign policy, the practices and localization of financial institutions, and the evolution of strategies for globalizing firms.Political and financial geographers will find this book to be a compelling read, as it sheds new light on the semi-periphery, which is often overlooked in studies addressing the global financial system. Economic policy-makers working on the nexus between politics, finance and development will also benefit from reading this book.Contributors include: S. Ageeva, G. Battisti, F. Betioli Contel, S. Grandi, J. Jafri, G. Lim, A. Mishura, T.T. Nguyen, M. Percoco, U. Rosati, C. Sellar, E. Stavrova, E. Yilmaz

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-05
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781789903843

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Contents:Foreword by Dariusz Wójcik ixIntroduction: theorizing semi-peripheral geographies of finance andbanking 1Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri1 Geofinance/banking between political and financial geographies 15Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria JafriPART I SPATIAL STRUCTURES OF FINANCE ANDBANKING2 The geography of International Financial Institutions: whatcan this tell us? 31Silvia Grandi3 Shadow banking: a geographical interpretation 47Gianfranco Battisti4 Spatial development and offshore financial chains 65Umberto Rosati5 Financial system and urban networks: an empirical analysis ofBrazilian territory 79Fabio Betioli ContelPART II THE STATE–BANK–FIRM NEXUS IN THEFINANCE SEMI-PERIPHERIES6 Italian banks and business services as knowledge pipelines forSMEs: examples from Central and Eastern Europe 91Christian Sellar7 Spatial aspects of the Russian banking system: transformationand access to credit for small Russian firms 120Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura8 Bulgaria’s banking system: outside and inside the financialgeography of Europe 138Elena Stavrova9 Banking reform in Vietnam: persistence of the state? 155Guanie Lim and Thong Tien NguyenPART III MICRO-LEVEL ACTION AND REACTION OFPEOPLE AND FIRMS10 Cross-currency swaps and local credit money creation in theTurkish banking system 176Engin Yılmaz11 Geographical aspects of recent banking crises in Italy 195Marco Percoco12 Shadow financial citizenship and the contradictions offinancial inclusion in Pakistan 213Juvaria JafriIndex 243

'In examining the boundaries between political and financial geographies, Grandi, Sellar and Jafri pose important questions about the nature and interrelations of geography, law, science, politics and finance. Their volume represents a rich tapestry that examines the evolution of international financial institutions as well as their social, political and economic ramifications across ''semi-peripheral financial areas''. The emphasis on the complex web of relations between governments, firms and households across under-represented locations deepens the reader's understanding of the intricate flows of finance as they operate across time and place, with a geo-political focus that links power, politics and policy. This is an impressive volume that will speak to academics and practitioners with an interest in financial geography alike.'--Janelle Knox-Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'The contemporary world economy is a financialized one. The editors and authors of this collection are very successful in analysing some of the significant political geographical dimensions of the global and networked finance in semi-peripheries that have hitherto been mostly neglected in English-language scholarship. Founded on extensive empirical materials and laced with cogent conceptual insights, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the spatialities of finance of the contemporary geopolitical condition.'--Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki, Finland