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The variegated financialization of housing KU Leuven
© 2017 Urban Research Publications Limited There is a small but growing literature on the financialization of housing that demonstrates how housing is a central aspect of financialization. Despite the varied analyses of the financialization of housing and the importance of housing to financialization, the relations between housing and financialization remain under-researched and under-theorized. The financialization of housing is not really a ...
The financialization of land and agriculture Universiteit Antwerpen
Chapter 3 focuses on the financialisation of land and agribusiness, a dimension that is often omitted. Throughout the world, private equity funds, pension funds, special purpose vehicles and hedge funds are increasingly acquiring control over land and agribusinesses. Without underplaying the relevance of finance in shaping other pieces of the food system such as seeds production, transformation and distribution, the present Chapter exclusively ...
How Subordinate Financialization Shapes Urban Development: The Rise and Fall of Warsaw's Slu(z) over dotewiec Business District KU Leuven
© 2019 Urban Research Publications Limited This article studies the development of Warsaw's Służewiec neighbourhood, Poland's largest business district, as a case of real estate financialization. We argue that the neighbourhood's chaotic ‘de-contextualized’ growth was shaped by Poland's semi-peripheral position in the global economy on the one hand—enabling a process of subordinate financialization—and legacies of state socialism on the other. ...
The differential impact of real estate financialization on the political economies of Germany and France KU Leuven
Following the Global Recession of 2007-2008, the financialization of real estate has become a well studied research topic in advanced, capitalist societies and emerging economies. Yet, since financialization is a variegated and path-dependent process, local and national varieties between real estate financialization persist. This research project focuses on the financialization of real estate in Germany and France, two Continental European ...
The potential for financialization KU Leuven
The financialization literature tries to make sense of how the world has been changing and continues to do so. There is real potential for financialization to conjoin real-world processes and practices that are conceptually treated as discrete entities. Financialization is an inherently spatial phenomenon that should be much more central to economic–geographic analysis, explaining how the financialization of the global economy is tied to ...
The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia analyses how states in these areas have adopted different monetary, financial, and foreign exchange policies to govern financialization, which have induced varying levels of state control over financial markets. The book analyzes the puzzling observation of policy divergence by investigating how countries have reacted differently to major financial crises since the 1970s. It ...
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 ...
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 ...
Multistakeholder partnerships for development and the financialization of development assistance Universiteit Antwerpen
Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for development are being revitalized in the post-2015 era as essential vehicles in financing and realizing sustainable development. This article argues that MSPs for development play a central role as new financial actors in shaping the legal and ideational structures of development assistance, pushing for a financialized development assistance model that relies on the steady multiplication of new financial ...