For too long, students of the political economy of corporate governance have been
enthralled by the language of ownership and control. This language stems from Berle and …

Modern civilization revolves around money. However, money is a paradox. It is nothing more
than a representation of and medium for decentralized networks of social trust, but its …

The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of
nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of …

The financialisation literature has grown over the past decades. Despite a generally
accepted definition, financialisation has been used to describe different phenomena. We …

In recent decades, governments and international organizations have made strong efforts to
promote homeownership among low-income households. However, in many countries …

Institutional Investors in Global Market provides you with a comprehensive overview about
what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the …

We use employment data for 2008–2012 to analyse the impact of the subprime and
Eurozone crises on the British and German financial sector. In the UK, the sector contracted …

Using a unique database on investment funds and the conceptual framework of global
financial networks, this paper examines the spatial structure of the European investment …

Discussions about informal housing in developing, emerging economies often revolve
around the need for prohibition, privatization and formalization. Private title is seen as a …

Although abandoned, unused or underused urban open spaces can play an important role
in urban well-being, the traditional approaches of state management and privatization have …