The End of Investment Bank Capitalism? An Economic Geography of Financial Jobs and Power

Economic Geography

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 345-368

  Wójcik, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Financial crisis; Investment banking; Securitization

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; INCOME; INVESTMENT;

EID: 84866142560     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2012.01162.x     Document Type: Article

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