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CALL FOR PAPERS
Offshore financial centres: New data, actors and opportunities for regulation
German Congress of Geography
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, September 25 - 30 2019
Organisers: Christoph Scheuplein (Westphalian University), Hans-Martin Zademach (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
For decades, the global financial market has been structured by cooperation and competition between onshore and offshore financial centres. Offshore financial centres (OFC) are also a spatial phenomenon, in that they are a territorially based development model for smaller states. Because they strongly rely on confidentiality among the actors involved, very little data on financial transactions could be obtained for many years. However, the global financial crisis put the importance of offshore centres on the political agenda, with the result that international institutions such as the IMF, the OECD and the G20 have pushed the regulation of financial transactions ahead more seriously. Public criticism of the legal and illegal effects of offshore financial centres has also led to media coverage of their practices (e.g. Offshore Leaks 2013; Luxembourg Leaks 2014; Panama Papers 2016).
Since the 1980s, offshore financial centres have been addressed primarily by financial and political science literature, and it is only now that they are being dealt with in financial geography research. Taxonomies and evolutionary models of offshore financial centres had long been at the centre of this research, but now connections are being sought with current theory concepts ¬for example, to the theories on the locations of higher-value services, the theories of international hegemony, and discourse and elite theories. The aim of this session is to present the current state of this new field of research and to bring together previously separated strands of research. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, we are welcoming contributions from scientists with different backgrounds. Empirical and conceptual contributions may be submitted to address any of the following questions:
- What banking and tax systems, including their national contexts, promote OFCs and benefit greatly from them?
- What findings are available on the returns that the use of OFC brings to actors?
- How are individual sub-sectors of the financial market (investment funds, hedge funds, etc.) linked to specific OFCs?
- What is the status of regulatory initiatives by international organisations and what are the current challenges?
- What effects could Brexit have on OFCs that are closely linked to the United Kingdom?
Other related topics are also welcome.
Please submit paper abstracts to http://www.dkg2019.de by Friday January 25, 2019. Specific questions regarding the session can be addressed to any of the organisers ([log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]). Abstract authors will be notified by Monday March 25, 2019.
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