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Towards an economic geography of FinTech

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, we identify the ways in which the existing literature has examined financial technology (FinTech). Using the frame of the ‘FinTech Cube’, we examine how FinTech unfolds through the intersections of key actors, technologies and institutions.
Karen P. Y. Lai, M. Samers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Economic Geography, Politics, and Policy

open access: yesAnnual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print), 2020
Globalization has reduced the importance of distance between countries. Yet, within countries, geography matters now more than ever. Economic activities, including production and employment, occur unevenly across space within countries, and globalization
S. Rickard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Necrocapitalist networks: COVID-19 and the ‘dark side’ of economic geography

open access: yesDialogues in Human Geography, 2020
The economic fallout from COVID-19 has precipitated a crisis in global supply chains. The lockdown of consumers worldwide has triggered a fall in demand that has so far led to the dismissal of up to one-third of Cambodia’s garment sector workforce ...
Sabina Lawreniuk
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Production of economic statistics for tourist accommodation services of Belo Horizonte under the flexible geography approach

open access: yesRevista de Turismo Contemporâneo, 2020
This paper aims to produce an experimental economic statistic for the tourist accommodation services for Belo Horizonte under a flexible geography perspective.
Caio César Soares Gonçalves
doaj   +1 more source

Trends of Economic Development of Warsaw and their Spatial Implications

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2006
The article presents trends of change in Warsaw’s economic structure and their influence upon the formation of the city’s functional and spatial structure.
Grochowski Mirosław   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rural restructuring and gendered micro-dynamics of the agricultural labour market

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2017
Based on a comparison of the employment trajectories of two cohorts of men and women in the agricultural sector in Sweden, this article gives an account of the past 50 years’ decline in employment in agriculture.
Martin Hedlund   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do spatial differences in the personal car market reflect a centre-periphery structure? The case of Poland

open access: yesEuropean Transport Research Review, 2021
Aim of the study A centre-periphery structure reflects spatial inequalities in the level of economic development of countries and regions. Most often, it provides a simplified picture of spatial distribution of income or spatial accessibility.
Bartłomiej Kołsut   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Some dilemmas of post-industrialism in a region of traditional industry: The case of the Katowice conurbation, Poland

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports, 2016
The problem of using the concept of post-industrialism to define regions with traditional industries is addressed in this article. It focuses on the diversity of industrial development in the Katowice conurbation (Poland) and the difficulties of ...
Krzysztofik Robert   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Better Methods in Economic Geography

open access: yes, 2020
This paper suggests that it is a timely task to aim at building better methods in economic geography. While economic geography is a vibrant field, it is characterized by methodological divides and fragmentations. In presenting a collection of five papers,
H. Bathelt, Pengfei Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Challenging Task of Governing Cross-Border Investment in Peripheral Regions: Polish Investors in Northeast Germany

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2014
The article investigates the challenging task of governing cross-border investment in peripheral regions. The main objective is to identify common opportunities and obstacles in the Pomerania Euroregion by taking the case study of Polish citizens ...
Kinder Sebastian   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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