Managing Financial Risks From Global to Local

Author: Gordon L. Clark; Adam D. Dixon; Ashby H. B. Monk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199557431
Published In: July 2009
Format: Hardback , 352 pages
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Inter-disciplinary analysis of the financial system and the current crisis
International in scope
Looks at a range of different sectors and markets: stock markets, pensions, housing, finance, etc.
Challenges many conventional economic orthodoxies
Analyses the real risks that underlie the financial system
Assesses the likely future role of finance and regulation in the world economy

Recent market turmoil, bank runs, global equities sell-off, and the 'credit crunch' have demonstrated the sophisticated and interconnected nature of financial markets today - seemingly localized problems have quickly spread, putting at risk the solvency of both local and global financial institutions. As these markets are increasingly complex, interconnected, and embedded in the daily lives of individuals, there is a pressing need to unravel and understand the complexities and prospects of this new and transformative social, political, and geographical paradigm.

This book brings together a group of leading scholars from a range of disciplines to formulate a more holistic understanding of financial risk by rooting it in different environments, spatial scales, and disciplines. The result is an all-encompassing exposition of current and future financial risk management practices, possibilities, and problems.

Readership: Academics, researchers, and advanced students of finance, economics, management, geography, and politics; Practitioners and consultants in the financial industry

Preface
Introduction
Section I: Governing Global Financial Risk
1: Louis W. Pauly: The Changing Political Geography of Financial Crisis Management
2: Gary Dymski: Is Financial Governance Feasible in the Neoliberal Era
3: Gordon L. Clark: Institutional Investors and Risk Management
Section II: Place, Proximity, and Risk
4: Yuval Millo and Donald Mackenzie: The Practicalities of Being Inaccurate: Steps Towards the Social Geography of Financial Risk Management
5: Ewald Engelen: Learning to Cope with Uncertainty: On the Spatial Distributions of Financial Innovation and its Fall-out
6: Dariusz Wójcik: The Role of Proximity in Secondary Markets
Section III: Urban Risk
7: Phillip O'Neill: Infrastructure Investment and the Management of Risk
8: Lisa A. Hagerman and Tessa Hebb: Balancing Risk and Return in Urban Investing
9: Sam Randalls: Managing Financial Risks in Urban Environments
Section IV: Individuals in a Risk World
10: Sue Smith: Managing Financial Risk: The Strange Case of Housing
11: Kendra Strauss: Gender, Risk, and Occupational Pensions
12: Paul Langley: Consumer Credit, Self-Discipline, and Risk Management

Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Professor and Head of Department, Oxford University Centre for the Environment,Adam D. Dixon, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, and Ashby H. B. Monk, Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Boston College's Centre for Retirement Research.

Contributors:
Gary A. Dymski, Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside,
Gordon L. Clark, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford,
Adam D. Dixon, Oxford University Centre for the Environment,
Ewald Engelen, associate professor, Amsterdam Metropolitan Institute for Development Studies, University of Amsterdam,
Lisa A. Hagerman, Director, Mission Investing Campaign Resource Center, Boston College Institute for Responsible Investment,
Tessa Hebb, Director, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Carleton University, Canada,
Paul Langley, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Northumbria University,
Donald MacKenzie, personal chair in sociology, University of Edinburgh,
Ashby H. B. Monk, Research Fellow, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College,
Yuval Millo, lecturer, Department of Accounting, London School of Economics,
Phillip O'Neill, Professor and Foundation Director, Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney,
Louis W. Pauly, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance and Director, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto,
Samuel Randalls, lecturer in geography, University College London,
Susan J. Smith, director, Institute of Advanced Study, and Professor of Geography, Durham University,
Kendra Strauss, Research Associate, School of Geography, Oxford University Centre for the Environment,
Dariusz Wójcik, Lecturer, Oxford University Centre for the Environment.

"a vitally important volume in the continued development of research into the geographies of money and finance...it will be invaluable to scholars working in both economic geography and the social sciences more generally" - Sarah Hall, Journal of Economic Geography