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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