E<sc>ngelen</sc> E. and G<sc>lasmacher</sc> A. Multiple financial modernities. International financial centres, urban boosters and the Internet as the site of negotiations, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The 1990s and 2000s (the 'noughties') saw a large number of urban boosters trying to frame specific international financial...

This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.

During the 1990s, pension funds seemed to dominate the world's capital markets, reaping unprecedented rates of return. This stands in glaring contrast to the budgetary difficulties of most nonfunded European pension arrangements, which are a result of the changing demographic composition of the...

The paper argues that migration studies are too parochial, focusing exclusively on ostensible immigration and incorporation policies and failing to take into account the 'structuring' effects of the overall institutional framework. The need for more comparative and more economically-oriented...

The turn of the twenty-first century saw the re-emergence of debates about the reconfiguration of European financial geographies and the role of stock exchange mergers in this process. There has been, however, no systematic attempt to date to analyse such changes. This paper proposes a specific...