Geofinance between Political and Financial Geographies

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

Silvia Grandi, Christian Sellar, Juvaria Jafri (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2019
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78990-384-3 (ISBN)

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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

Edited by Silvia Grandi, Department of Statistical Sciences ‘Paolo Fortunati’, University of Bologna, Italy, Christian Sellar, Department of Public Policy Leadership, University of Mississippi, US and Juvaria Jafri, Department of International Politics, City, University of London, UK

Contents:

Foreword by Dariusz Wójcik ix
Introduction: theorizing semi-peripheral geographies of finance and
banking 1
Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri
1 Geofinance/banking between political and financial geographies 15
Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri

PART I SPATIAL STRUCTURES OF FINANCE AND
BANKING
2 The geography of International Financial Institutions: what
can this tell us? 31
Silvia Grandi
3 Shadow banking: a geographical interpretation 47
Gianfranco Battisti
4 Spatial development and offshore financial chains 65
Umberto Rosati
5 Financial system and urban networks: an empirical analysis of
Brazilian territory 79
Fabio Betioli Contel
PART II THE STATE–BANK–FIRM NEXUS IN THE
FINANCE SEMI-PERIPHERIES

6 Italian banks and business services as knowledge pipelines for
SMEs: examples from Central and Eastern Europe 91
Christian Sellar
7 Spatial aspects of the Russian banking system: transformation
and access to credit for small Russian firms 120
Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura
8 Bulgaria’s banking system: outside and inside the financial
geography of Europe 138
Elena Stavrova
9 Banking reform in Vietnam: persistence of the state? 155
Guanie Lim and Thong Tien Nguyen

PART III MICRO-LEVEL ACTION AND REACTION OF
PEOPLE AND FIRMS
10 Cross-currency swaps and local credit money creation in the
Turkish banking system 176
Engin Yılmaz
11 Geographical aspects of recent banking crises in Italy 195
Marco Percoco
12 Shadow financial citizenship and the contradictions of
financial inclusion in Pakistan 213
Juvaria Jafri

Index 243

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2019
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
ISBN-10	1-78990-384-X / 178990384X
ISBN-13	978-1-78990-384-3 / 9781789903843
Zustand	Neuware