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Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2018). Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district. Economic Geography, 94(3), 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2017.1304806

In this paper, I develop a sympathetic critique of cultural economy approaches to market making, arguing that the spatial imaginations deployed in this work remain comparatively limited. Drawing on the emerging dialogue between cultural economy and h... Read More about Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district.

London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state-finance relations and selective institutional adaptation (2017)
Journal Article
Töpfer, L., & Hall, S. (2018). London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state-finance relations and selective institutional adaptation. Regional Studies, 52(8), 1053-1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1275538

China’s currency, the Renminbi (RMB), is increasingly important in global financial markets, facilitated by the global expansion of offshore RMB centres. This paper examines London’s development as the first Western offshore RMB centre established in... Read More about London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state-finance relations and selective institutional adaptation.

Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2017). Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4), 489-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12172

This paper revisits canonical thinking on international financial centres (IFCs) that understands them as being primarily sustained through: market liquidity; economies of competition and cooperation between financial and related professional service... Read More about Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district.

(Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites (2017)
Book Chapter
Hall, S. (2017). (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites. In J. Glückler, E. Lazega, & I. Hammer (Eds.), Knowledge and Networks (103-116). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45023-0_6

Undergraduate and postgraduate education has increasingly been framed by policymakers and employers in advanced economies as an important way of improving graduate employability and enhancing economic growth within knowledge-based economies. This is... Read More about (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites.