Essays about: "financialisation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word financialisation.

  1. 1. The Practices of Food Financialisation : How abstract becomes concrete in the food system

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Sofia Savonen; [2023]
    Keywords : financialisation; food systems; soybeans; commodity chains; world systems theory;

    Abstract : The 21st century has witnessed a significant growth of financial activity in the food system. Although these developments have been mirrored with a rise in interest towards studying financialisation, there is still much to uncover of its complex workings in an equally complex system. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Framing of Affordability within Ireland’s Housing Discourse : Analysis of the Negotiated Process of Narrative Struggles within the Framing of Affordability within Housing Discourse

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Neil Dunne; [2023]
    Keywords : Affordability; Affordable Housing; Housing Affordability; Housing Policy; Social Constructionism; Narrative; Housing Regimes; Commodification; Decommodification; Welfare Provision;

    Abstract : After the 2008 Global Financial Crash, Ireland’s neoliberal housing policy turned again to housing financialisation as focus lay upon the attraction of corporate investors in order to revive the housing market. The result was a swift return to housing price rises but this came with ever growing homelessness and housing precarity as REITs and other corporate investors' influence on the housing market grew. READ MORE

  4. 3. Living Transnational Financial Lives: Exploring the Everyday Financial Practices, Networks and Subjectivities of Singaporeans in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Yong Hao Tan; [2022]
    Keywords : Financialisation of everyday life; transnational migrants; everyday financial practices; networks; subjectivities; Singapore; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the everyday financial lives of transnational migrants through the case of Singaporean migrants in Sweden. Drawing upon the scholarship on the financialisation of everyday life and transnational migration across economic and sociocultural geography, this thesis develops a conceptual framework that explores the everyday financial practices, networks and subjectivities that shape the lived financial realities of transnational migrants and how the complex and overlapping relationships between these different aspects of the financial everyday shapes the formation of the transnational financial subject. READ MORE

  5. 4. Financialisation and Shareholder Value : Concepts of Governance in the Swedish Market for Corporate Control: 1983-2008

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Pontus Blüme; [2021]
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  6. 5. Hot Commodity? The Commodity Currency Hypothesis and the Financialisation of Commodity Markets

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Hannes Ludvigsson; Erik Ekelund; [2021]
    Keywords : Commodity Currency Hypothesis; Exchange Rates; Time Series Analysis; Granger-causality;

    Abstract : Movements in the commodity markets can have profound effects on the global economy by affecting the cost of food, metal, and energy goods. As such, the prospect of predicting commodity price fluctuations, thereby allowing for better inflation control, production planning and even humanitarian aid, has long generated great interest. READ MORE