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GEOFIN Blog #15 – Degentrify.Europe seminar in Berlin (by Zsuzsanna Pósfai)
Degentrify.Europe seminar in Berlin
I participated in the…

GEOFIN Blog #14 – ENHR conference paper: Housing finance beyond individual mortgages – how to finance new forms of affordable housing in Eastern Europe?
The paper I presented at the annual (online) conference of the…

GEOFIN Blog #13 – Conference news: Thirty years of capitalist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: inequalities and social resistance (by Zsuzsanna Pósfai)
This was a conference organized by the Institute for Social Solidarity…

GEOFIN Blog #12 – Financialisation of households in the ECE region: what can we learn from the secondary statistical data? (by Alicja Bobek)
The financialisation of households in East and Central Europe…

GEOFIN Blog #11 – The post-pandemic city: what could possibly go wrong (by Martin Sokol)
The Covid-19 pandemic has reignited debates about the future…

GEOFIN Blog #10 – Western banks-led financialisation in Croatia: A paper delivered at the workshop for Ireland-based postgraduate students researching Central and Eastern Europe (by Sara Benceković)
Writing a PhD thesis is an individual endeavour, but that does…

GEOFIN Blog #9 – From a pandemic to a global financial meltdown? Preliminary thoughts on the economic consequences of Covid-19 (by Martin Sokol)
While fighting against Covid-19 continues and saving lives must…

GEOFIN Blog #8 – Financialisation and sub-national banking geographies in Croatia – introducing my PhD research (by Sara Benceković)
Being a part of the GEOFIN project, my PhD focuses on financialisation…

GEOFIN Blog #7 – ‘Subordinated Financialisation’? The Role of Credit and Debt in Everyday Lives of Households in East-Central Europe (by Alicja Bobek)
"The issue of household financialisation, and financialisation…

GEOFIN Blog #6 – Financialization of the State: Preliminary Analysis for Croatia – Presentation at the Croatian National Bank (by Marek Mikuš)
“Financialization of the State: Preliminary Analysis for Croatia”…

GEOFIN Blog #5 – Western European Banking Groups in East-Central Europe: A Preliminary Overview (by Martin Sokol)
“Western European Banking Groups in East-Central Europe: A…

GEOFIN Blog #4 – Public debt, capital flows and financialization of the state in East-Central Europe (by Marek Mikuš)
The expansion of public debt and changes in its regulation were…

GEOFIN Blog #3 – Chaining Households to Financial Markets: Micro-level Interest-Bearing Strategies of Western Banks in Croatia (by Petra Rodik)
The 6th FinGeo Global Seminar in São Paulo, Brazil (15-17 May…

GEOFIN Blog #2 – Contestations of the financialization of housing in Croatia and Hungary (by Marek Mikuš)
On 20–21 March 2019, I attended and delivered a paper in the…

GEOFIN Blog #1 – What is GEOFIN about? (by Martin Sokol)
GEOFIN is a 5-year research project funded by the European Research…