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The financialization of real estate KU Leuven
De politiek van buy-to-let KU Leuven
Lehman Brothers in the Dutch offshore financial centre: the role of shadow banking in increasing leverage and facilitating debt KU Leuven
Credit intermediation outside the regular banking system, or shadow banking, has increased immensely over the past decade. This paper situates this increase against the backdrop of the structural problem of overaccumulation, and thus the absence of profitable reinvestment opportunities in the production sphere, in addition to the scarcity of high-quality collaterals. Zooming in on Europe’s offshore world and Dutch conduit structures in ...
The financialization of a social housing provider KU Leuven
© 2017 Urban Research Publications Limited Why does a social housing provider bet on interest rate fluctuations? This article presents a case study of the financialization of both housing and the state. Social housing in the Netherlands is provided by non-profit housing associations that have since 1989 been set apart from the state. Many associations started developing housing for profit, borrowing on global capital markets or buying ...
London and New York as a safe deposit box for the transnational wealth elite KU Leuven
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The paper focuses on transnational wealth elites buying residential properties in New York and London as an investment rather than as a primary residence. The transnational wealth elite is a group of people that have their origin in one locality, but invest their wealth transnationally since they entertain transnational jobs, assets and social networks. New York and London real estate has the unique quality that it ...
Financialization and housing: Between globalization and Varieties of Capitalism KU Leuven
In the literature, one finds various explanations for the rise of financialized capitalism. In the different strands of financialization literature, housing either plays a minor role or is simply seen as one of the bearers of financialization. The relations between housing and financialization are under-researched and under-theorized. This article, first, looks at the rise of housing finance as an integral part of macroeconomic policy, and ...