Economic and Financial Geography
| Courses and exams | |
|---|---|
| Prof | Bassens David Aalbers Manuel |
| Courses | Lectures and field trip |
| Examination | Written exam and PRAC report |
| Background | |
| Credits | 6 |
| When? | 2nd semester |
| ECTS | KU Leuven VUB |
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
- Written Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
- PRAC Presentation determines 25% of the final mark.
- PRAC Paper determines 25% of the final mark.
2025
June
1. Financialization, Degrowth and Post-Growth
- What is the difference between degrowth and post-growth ?
- Is financialized degrowth possible? Or financialized post-growth?
- How would real estate development look for degrowth and post-growth respectivly?
2. Global Financial Networks
- Define the concept and its constituant parts.
- What could we learn by applying GFN on the city of Hong Kong?
3. FinTech, better the firms that develop it, often are described as disruptors of the financial sector. Taken the existing FinTech ecosystems, explain this process of disruption.
4. Apple business model
- What geographical strategies are present in Apple's business model that led to its success?
- Have Trump's economic policies had an effect on Apple's business model?
2024
1. Real estate has become a key object of financialization
- Why?
- Give an example of chosen context. Give the positive and negative implications for the actors involved and excluded.
- Give an urban policy that can counter this.
2. Climate change governance has given new or worsened socio-spatial inequalities. Given the example of Miami, explain how this leads to climate gentrification in the urban. Which processes were present here?
3. Fintech, better the firms that develop it, has been described as 'disrupters' in the financial sector. Taken the existing FinTech ecosystems, explain this process of disruption.
4. Text of Ronan Palan (2002): how offshore havens 'commercialize their sovereignty'
- Give an example how they do that for wealth accumulation.
- What is the role of financial intermediaries and business service firms?
- What are the implications of this for non-offshore states?
2020
The exam was exceptionally oral and open book due to the corona crisis.
- Financialisation: what are the main processes, what are the effects (who benefits, (dis-)advantages).
- You need to give the answer for one of the chapters we saw. Which chapter you get was decided by a random number generator from google. I had the chapter of the super wealth and the rich.