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Place Your Bets: Towards an Understanding of Globalisation, Socio-financial Engineering and Competition within a Financial Centre

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  • Michael Pryke

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK)

  • Roger Lee

    (Department of Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK)

Abstract

Globalisation and technical change increase the intensity of competition within and between financial centres already subject to competitive pressures from an apparently highly mobile financial capital. However, financial production is shaped by its complex, socially constructed cultural geography through which the variety of its markets take place and its profits are defined and made. The production of mortgage-backed securities within the City of London illustrates the argument.

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  • Michael Pryke & Roger Lee, 1995. "Place Your Bets: Towards an Understanding of Globalisation, Socio-financial Engineering and Competition within a Financial Centre," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 32(2), pages 329-344, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:32:y:1995:i:2:p:329-344
    DOI: 10.1080/00420989550013112
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    2. Manuel B. Aalbers, 2009. "The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets: Reflections on the Financial Crisis," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(2), pages 281-290, June.
    3. Peter Wood & Dariusz Wójcik, 2010. "A Dominant Node of Service Innovation: London’s Financial, Professional and Consultancy Services," Chapters, in: Faïz Gallouj & Faridah Djellal (ed.), The Handbook of Innovation and Services, chapter 25, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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