Financial Sector Competition, Services Trade, and Growth

This article explores the spatial dynamics of agrofuels. Building on categories from the field of critical spatial theory, it shows how these categories enable a comprehensive analysis of the spatial dynamics of agrofuels that links the macro-structures of the global political economy to concrete, place-based struggles. Four core socio-spatial dynamics of agrofuel politics are highlighted and applied to empirical findings: territorialization, the financial sector as a new scale of regulation, place-based struggles and transnational spaces of resources and capital flows.

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Russian Banking System under Conditions of Global Crisis

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2009-7-4-14 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 4-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

G. Gref ◽

K. Yudaeva

Keyword(s):

Banking System ◽

Commodity Prices ◽

Financial Sector ◽

Banking Crises ◽

Economic Recovery ◽

Balance Sheets ◽

Current Economic Crisis ◽

Risk Appetite ◽

The Us ◽

The Face

Problems in the financial sector were at the core of the current economic crisis. Therefore, economic recovery will only become sustainable after taking care of the major weaknesses in the financial sector. This conclusion is relevant both for the US and UK - the two countries where crisis has started, and for other economies which financial institutions turned out to be fragile in the face of the swings in the risk appetite. Russia is one of the countries where the crisis has revealed serious deficiency in the financial sector. Our study of 11 banking crises during the last 25-30 years shows that sustainable economic recovery and decrease in the dependence on commodity prices will be virtually impossible without cleaning of balance sheets and capitalization of the financial sector.

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From Hard Money to Branch Banking

California History ◽

10.1525/ch.2016.93.1.26 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 93 (1) ◽

pp. 26-44

Author(s):

Larry Schweikart ◽

Lynne Pierson Doti

Keyword(s):

West Coast ◽

Financial Sector ◽

Gold Rush ◽

Test Case ◽

The West ◽

Branch Banking

In Gold Rush–era California, banking and the financial sector evolved in often distinctive ways because of the Gold Rush economy. More importantly, the abundance of gold on the West Coast provided an interesting test case for some of the critical economic arguments of the day, especially for those deriving from the descending—but still powerful—positions of the “hard money” Jacksonians.

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