We are pleased to inform about the conference “Financialization of financial
and real estate markets” at the Institute of Human Geography of the
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. Everybody interested in the conference
is welcome!
Thursday, 19th / Friday, 20th of March 2015
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg, Dipl.-Geogr. Nadine Bitterer and
Dipl.-Geogr. Kerstin Bläser
Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Institute of Human Geography, Campus
Westend, PEG-Building
Up till now, discussions concerning financialization in finance and real
estate have mainly focused on analysing the deregulation and globalisation
of financial markets, the transition from a bank-based to a market-oriented
financial system, the emergence and influence of new financial actors and
financial products as well as changes in the management of corporations and
production systems. The aim of the conference is to address questions which
have been subject to less examination up to now, like:
· How does the integration of financial and real estate markets work?
· How can different actors become involved in opening-up possible
markets?
· How important are norms, standards and calculative practices in the
process of making markets visible and global?
· What are the territorialising practices which go along with the
establishment of new investment markets and asset classes?
· What are the effects of these developments on the built
environment, land and property?
It is the specific goal of the conference to discuss structural
reorientations, practices and mechanisms involved in real estate and
financial markets. In addition, we will critically examine the input of
theoretical concepts from different strands of cultural and political
economy for the explanation of these developments.
Program
Thursday, March 19th
2:00pm Reception and Introduction
2:30-4:30pm Session 1: Financialization and Calculative
Practices
2:30 - 3:10pm Andreas Nölke, Goethe University,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
The Politics of Financialization: Accounting Standards and the Welfare
Contribution of Finance
3:10 – 3:50pm Andrea Mennicken, LSE, UK
Accounting, Territorialization and the Plasticity of Valuation
3:50 – 4:30pm Uwe Vormbusch, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany
Numbers, Fictions and Discoveries: Towards a Pragmatist Understanding of
Valuing
5:00 – 7:00pm Session 2: Conceptualising Real Estate
Investment Markets
5:00 – 5:40pm Sebastian Botzem, Uni Bremen / Leonhard
Dobusch, FU Berlin, Germany
The World on FIRE: fragmented organization and calculated profits in the
real estate sector
5:40 – 6:20pm Michael Pryke, Open University, Milton
Keynes, UK
Organising the global search for yield amongst “alternative assets” and the
resulting emergent topologies of financialization
6:20 – 7:00pm Manuel Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium
Housing and the Variegation of Financialized Capitalism
Friday, March 20th
9:30am – 1:00pm Workshops
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Laura Calbet, TU Berlin
Pierre Bouché / Ludovic Halbert, LATTS
Financializing Housing. Development
Investing in the urban built environment: exploring
In Post-Welfare Berlin
the practices of fund managers
Nadine Bitterer, Goethe University Frankfurt Kerstin
Bläser, Goethe University Frankfurt
Constructing transparency in the Warsaw office The
fabrication of calculability – Roles of calculative
market – on profession elites and infrastructures practices
in the financialization of real estate markets
Gertjan Wijburg, KU Leuven
Fabian Thiel, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Reforming the German office market? Change Property
rights and real estate. Development for property
and non-change in Germany’s property sector reduction?
The example of Cambodia
Antoinne Guironnet / Ludovic Halbert, LATTS Koen Smet,
University of Salzburg
Yield Urbanism, or how financial investors The
cost of housing in urban areas
(re)shape large-scale Urban Development
Projects
Ismael Yrigoy, Universitat De les Illes Balears / Jana
Kleibert, University of Amsterdam
Nicolas Framont, Université Paris-Sorbonne Condo-ism:
a next step in financializing housing markets
Financialization of the economy and the housing around the
globe?
Sector in the current crisis. A comparison
Between Spain and France
2:00 – 04:00pm Session 3: Impacts and Consequences of
Financialization
2:00 – 2:40pm Eric Clark, Lund University, Sweden
Alternatives to Financialization: Making Rent Gap Theory Not True
2:40 – 3:20pm Andrej Holm, Humboldt University Berlin,
Germany
Intensification of investment and rental gentrification in Berlin
3:20 – 4:00pm Stefan Kofner, Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz,
Germany
Business model of listed residential real estate companies before and after
the withdrawal of financial investors in Germany
4:20 – 5:00pm Final Panel Discussion / Concluding Remarks
Conference fee
30 Euro / 10 Euro for students (accommodation is not included)
Registration until 1st of March 2015
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