In this article, we study the effects of geopolitical risks and world uncertainty on time-varying fiscal and external sustainability coefficients. We use Schlicht’s (2021) methodology to estimate time-varying fiscal and external sustainability coefficients for the EU for 27 economies between...

Against the backdrop of China’s increasingly influential role in the international financial architecture, this thesis seeks to characterize and evaluate China’s financial power potential. It does so by analyzing the relationship between domestic financial repression and international...

Contents: Foreword by Dariusz Wójcik -- Introduction. Theorizing semi-peripheral geographies of finance and banking / Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri -- 1. Geofinance/banking between political and financial geographies / Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri --...

This paper analyzes recent macroeconomic developments in the eurozone, particularly in Germany. Several economic indicators are sending signals of a looming German recession. Geopolitical tensions caused by trade disputes between the United States and China, plus the risk of a disorderly Brexit,...