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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of “green fintech,” a diverse subset of new financial technologies with expressly environmental aims. We suggest that an analysis of “green fintech” offers us a useful lens on the contradictions of green finance more generally.
Nick Bernards +2 more
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From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance
Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Thor Björnsson
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Special purpose vehicles and securitization [PDF]
This paper analyzes securitization and more generally “special purpose vehicles” (SPVs), which are now pervasive in corporate finance. The first part of the paper provides an overview of the institutional features of SPVs and securitization.
Gary Gorton, Nicholas S. Souleles
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Securitization and lending standards: evidence from the wholesale loan market [PDF]
We investigate the effect of securitization activity on banks’ lending standards using evidence from pricing behavior on the syndicated loan market. We find that banks more active at originating asset-backed securities are also more aggressive on their ...
Ongena, Steven +2 more
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THE ILLUSION OF FLEXIBILITY: Housing Aspirations Across Generations in Brazil's Formal Market
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 329-348, March 2026.Abstract With this study we join the conversation on housing aspirations from a Brazilian perspective, which is marked by coexisting formal and informal markets, investigating how market‐driven narratives and socioeconomic factors shape these aspirations across generations in urban areas.
Rafael Kalinoski, Mario Prokopiuk
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STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 277-292, March 2026.Abstract As urbanization takes on forms and spaces beyond the typical city, urban theorists have questioned how the field can comprehend the rural. Drawing on recent theories in rural geography, I propose the concept of ‘state‐led ruralization’, which I define as state agencies’ deliberate effort to reshape rural social space by regulating the ...
Ettore Santi
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Gentrification, Urban Informality, and Displacement in Bangkok
The Developing Economies, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 71-88, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study analyzes the recent complex dynamics of urban transformation and spatial exclusion affecting the urban lower class. Emerging cities such as Bangkok experience rapid and compressed development in which the characteristics and challenges of both developed and developing cities co‐occur.
Tamaki Endo
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Creditor Rights and Legal Transaction Costs
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 4-23, March 2026.ABSTRACT I estimate the relationship between increased creditor rights and legal expenditures of debtor corporations by evaluating a securitization law in India allowing secured creditors to seize collateral. The law reduced spending on legal proceedings used by firms to avoid foreclosure, because debt‐related litigation decreased.
Dhruv Chand Aggarwal
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 45-56, February 2026.Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
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