C<sc>oe</sc> N. M., L<sc>ai</sc> K. P. Y. and W<sc>ójcik</sc> D. Integrating finance into global production networks, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. While successful in its aim of 'globalizing' regional development, the global production network (GPN) approach has thus far paid less attention to the role of finance in the dynamics of...

This paper shows that firms from financial centres are more likely to go public than their provincial counterparts. The financial centre bias is analysed for 32 countries, including the European Union, the USA and Japan. It is particularly strong in countries with underdeveloped stock markets...

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The academic community seems divided into two camps: those who emphasise global finance and capital market integration and those who emphasise the economic geography of distinctively local regimes of accumulation. In the first instance, flows of capital and the corrosive forces of global...

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In order to research the dynamics of the German model of corporate governance, data pertaining to major holdings of voting rights in listed companies between 1997 and 2001 were examined. The change that took place in this short period of time is striking, with a falling level of ownership...

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