Finance & Space

Finance & Space is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on how and why finance and space co-evolve, and impacts on economy, society, and the environment.

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New in Finance & Space: Sara Benceković shows how Yugoslavia's collapse opened Croatia's banking sector to Western European takeover. The Croatian case raises fundamental questions about what is lost when banking stops being local.

Read it here: https://t.co/R6i51VscJD

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Congratulations to Stefanos Ioannou, recipient of the 2026 Finance and Space Best Referee Award!

A huge thank you for your invaluable contribution to the journal through your time and expertise as a reviewer.

Watch Stefanos receive the award here: https://t.co/CwDXh0Q9Ig

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We're delighted to announce the 2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award (1 of 2) goes to Eric Helleiner for 'International Finance and the Global Polycrisis'

Read it here:
🔗 https://t.co/jowoagXTWq

Watch Eric being presented the award:
https://t.co/5CZvaRgc6r

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New in Finance & Space: Neha Arora & Nihan Akyelken use financial diaries as a spatial–affective method to trace the everyday economies of construction and service workers at large urban infrastructure projects in Johannesburg and Istanbul.

Read it here: https://t.co/fdyIigX32c

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Winner of the 2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award! (1 of 2)

Sam Unsworth for: 'We don't want to be colonialism 2.0': emerging frontiers of climate finance for technology innovation'

Read the full paper here:

🔗 https://t.co/cccbMIpGuI

Watch here:
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Which city has the most diversified elite wealth? Which banking centre is most globally connected? Where does venture capital flow in China? This new Finance and Space collection on financial networks tackles these questions and more

👉 https://t.co/5ClZo5ZhS2

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Climate governance is increasingly enacted through financial mechanisms rather than public policy.

This @FinanceandSpace collection examines the politics of climate finance and calls for a new research agenda centred on value, power and justice. 👉 https://t.co/VO2rNwXsQl

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How does finance shape geopolitical power?

Our new Finance & Space special collection brings together work examining how financial systems underpin contemporary state power and global competition.

Browse the collection here: https://t.co/mC0Yo0jiDm

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Where does debt-driven growth actually happen?

New research in Finance & Space finds it may not be where debt is taken on, but elsewhere in the system.

Read James Wood's 'The spatial dynamics of America’s debt-driven growth model' here: https://t.co/LZwamZ2kbk

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Why are international finance centres absent from debates on post-carbon transitions?

Sabine Dörry makes a timely call for forensic research into the institutional structures through which IFCs constrain rapid and just transitions.

Read it here: https://t.co/kUxPZR0C4n

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New in Finance and Space: Daniel Robins on how Venezuelan migrants repurpose US FinTech for remittances. A striking case of monetary pluralism from the ground up.

Open access here: https://t.co/rV2dAyM594

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🚨 Check out Finance and Space's inaugural themed collection 🚨

These articles on Climate Governance and finace examine how risks become assets, adaptation becomes transparency, and intermediaries reshape who controls climate planning:

https://t.co/VO2rNwXsQl

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How is law used to make voluntary carbon markets liquid?

Lukas Bogner traces how UNIDROIT's standardisation of carbon credits reshapes property rights in the Global South and drives jurisdictional competition in the Global North.

Open access here: https://t.co/zwVEnARwnW

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Do tax incentives attract foreign investment or just signal that a government is trying?

Sudiana, Jones and Wren survey of 224 foreign-owned plants in Indonesia find that labour costs drive location but incentives don't.

Full paper: https://t.co/P7k2naKyoe

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Where do green financial flows land? Why does green finance land where it does? What does it produce when it “hits the ground”?

Find out in our new special issue on 'Green finance and capital landing' edited by Antoine Ducastel & Bregje Van Veelen: https://t.co/EkhQd9yJ64

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NEW in Finance and Space: How does Singapore maintain its position as Asia's trade & finance hub amid net-zero transitions?

Emma Galbraith and Javier Revilla Diez reveal mechanisms of extraterritorial agency in leveraging SE Asia's assets

https://t.co/fsXZEG3XKu

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How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield?

Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.

https://t.co/K3S3d06PsS

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New in Finance and Space:

Alexander Kristiansen & Patrik Ström shows how DeFi mirrors offshore finance with arbitrage, opacity, and power concentrated in new hands

🔗 https://t.co/eVwO3S2ZKR

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Has DeFi really decentralised real estate?

Ang Liu’s new article in Finance & Space shows the Aspen Coin case mostly recentralises ownership rather than democratising it:

🔗 https://t.co/03HwlY5vO1

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🗞️ New in Finance and Space:

ECB’s QE didn’t realign Eurozone finance but fuelled capital switching abroad. What does this mean for Europe’s financial sovereignty?

Access David Bassens & Duncan Lindo latest here:
🔗 https://t.co/lMZnJNUBLC