Karen Lai

Associate Professor

University of Durham

United Kingdom

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Karen Lai is an Associate Professor at Durham University in the UK. Her research focuses on financial geography, particularly the intersections of finance, production, and digital technology. Recent articles by Dr. Lai explore topics such as central bank digital currencies, green finance, and the role of Hong Kong in global financial networks.

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Manuel Aalbers

KU Leuven

BELGIUM

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Articles (14)

Reshaping state-finance-tech nexus through central bank digital currencies: the case of the mBridge project

Financial geography II – green finance and climate transition

Revolution, evolution, progress: Finance & Space manifesto

Finance in the age of geoeconomics: intersections of finance, production, and digital technology

Playful finance: Gamification and intermediation in FinTech economies

Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus

Lost (in) space for dialogue: On the (abandoned) need for working papers in human geography

The brokerage role of Hong Kong in global financial networks: the case of mainland Chinese companies’ US listings

Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia

Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia

Towards an economic geography of FinTech

Brexit and shifting geographies of financial centres in Asia

Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse

How ‘global’ are investment banks? An analysis of investment banking networks in Asian equity capital markets

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Manuel Aalbers

Janelle Knox-Hayes

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