Finance & Space
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Finance & Space
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Finance & Space is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on how and why finance and space co-evolve, and impacts on economy, society, and the environment.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfas20
🖼️ FINVIS:

Ruth Buck, Emily Rosenman and Louisa Holmes visualise Purdue Pharma's corporate ownersihp structure: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Their interactive diagram allows users to investigate the financial processes beneath the opioid epidemic: rkbuck1.github.io/finviz/
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
New in Finance and Space:
Oriane Lafuente-Sampietro & Ariane Reyns examine how territorial & socioeconomic factors shape the spread of mutual credit systems using Sardex as a case study of decentralised finance in Italy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
October 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The mBridge CBDC project (China, HK, Thailand, UAE, Saudi Arabia) reveals how states are reshaping global finance at the crossroads of monetary & technological sovereignty.

New in Finance & Space from Jing Chu, Cheng Fang & Karen P. Y. Lai
👉 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
RSA Award for Finance & Space Best Paper 2025 goes to...🥁 ...

Andreas Noelke, Goethe University, 'Private institutions in infrastructural geoeconomics: limits to the rise of emerging economies in global finance'🏆

Read this pathbreaking article here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
June 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
FinTech meets forest restoration. But does the innovation match the hype?

Felicia Liu, Benjamin Thompson and Jack L. Harris explore the rise of ‘FinTech for Forests’ 🌳A must-read for those tracking the green turn in finance.

New in Finance & Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
June 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
'We don’t want to be colonialism 2.0'

New Finance & Space article from Sam Unsworth investigates VC investment in climate technology startups for Africa: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
📣 Finance & Space's Annual Lecture 2024 'The Waterworks of Money' from Martijn van der Linden, Thomas Bollen and Carlijn Kingma, online now:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📣 New FinVis 'The Global City Network of Firms' from Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler & Julia Loginova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
climate risk x muni bonds 🔥⛈️🏦
Mark Davidson and Samuel Cooper examine trends in how municipalities disclose climate risk to prospective bondholders

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🗣️ AI is transforming financial sector labour markets... Or is it?

In their Finance & Space original research article, Michael Samers and Yujia He find no evidence that AI has led to the decentralisation of financial labour markets in the US: https://buff.ly/3EJCrZl
February 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
How is it that financial instruments such as REITs come to be framed as solutions to urban problems?

James Christopher Mizes, Martine Drozdz, Sinan Erensü, Ozan Karaman, & Mathilde Moaty explore this question through the case of REITs in Nairobi: https://buff.ly/4k144gF
February 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Gotta catch 'em all? Gordon Kuo Siong Tan explores the intersection of blockchain and carbon markets in cryptocarbon projects https://buff.ly/415k2NZ
February 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And illustrate the destination of these flows at the regional level in a chord diagram:
February 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Shi and Wang's cartogram illustrates the extremely uneven geography of VC investment towards China's east coast:
February 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Did you know the ESG information industry is dominated by Europe and North America?

Check out Andreas Dimmelmeier's FinVis: https://buff.ly/3Qhb0sn
February 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
How does private equity extract value from Germany’s solidarity-based healthcare system without detection?

Richard Bůžek’s latest in Finance & Space uncovers two key mechanisms:

📌 Neoclassical economic framing
📌 Opaque corporate structures

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/4gexzs6
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Beltway bandits in the UK! Taylor and Gilbert’s new FinVis shows the geography of private-sector contracts awarded from the UK’s Foreign and Development Office. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Is bigger better? A new article from Flogel and Hejnova shows how the geographic concentration of banks in Europe leads to worse national financial outcomes in crises. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 12, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Risky business! What drives risk preference for financial instruments: your individual background or cultural context? A new article from Clark et al show how institutional and cultural factors matter through a global comparison.
@karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 4:04 PM
And along with NYC, London is most wealthy elite's choice for a second home 🛬

November 28, 2024 at 8:35 AM
London's wealthy elite are more likely than that of other cities to own a second home in another country 🛫
November 28, 2024 at 8:35 AM
But SF also has the most social mobility in terms of its wealthy being 'self made'. Mexico City has the least self made wealthy by some distance
November 28, 2024 at 8:35 AM
They use commercial data on the wealthiest 400 residents of 10 cities to create city-level profiles according to Source of Wealth, Wealth Acquisition (inherited or self-made) and Residence Network.

Tech centre San Fran has the least diversity re source of wealth:
November 28, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Did you know that Private Equity firms have invested nearly $1 trillion into U.S. healthcare over the past decade? 🏥 💵

Or that these investments are often linked to higher costs and mixed to harmful impacts on healthcare outcomes? 😷
November 20, 2024 at 2:56 PM
The study finds a positive relationship between community belonging and small firms' relationship with their main bank.

Strong community bonds enhance the exchange of "soft information" between businesses and banks, enabling trust and better access to finance.
November 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM