Geofinance between political and financial geographies : a focus on the semi-periphery of the global financial system

Contents: Foreword by Dariusz Wójcik -- Introduction. Theorizing semi-peripheral geographies of finance and banking / Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri -- 1. Geofinance/banking between political and financial geographies / 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? / Silvia Grandi -- 3. Shadow banking: a geographical interpretation / Gianfranco Battisti -- 4. Spatial development and offshore financial chains / Umberto Rosati -- 5. Financial system and urban networks: an empirical analysis of Brazilian territory / 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 / Christian Sellar -- 7. Spatial aspects of the Russian banking system: transformation and access to credit for small Russian firms / Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura -- 8. Bulgaria's banking system: outside and inside the financial geography of Europe / Elena Stavrova -- 9. Banking reform in Vietnam: persistence of the state? / 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 / Engin Yılmaz -- 11. Geographical aspects of recent banking crises in Italy / Marco Percoco -- 12. Shadow financial citizenship and the contradictions of financial inclusion in Pakistan / Juvaria Jafri -- Index.