Towards an Ecology of Retail Financial Services: Understanding the Persistence of Door-to-Door Credit and Insurance Providers

By Andrew Leyshon, D. Burton, David Knights, C. Alferoff, P. Signoretta. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Building Trust in Economic Space (2006, background): “…as a complex social phenomenon or process shaped by knowledge, emotions, reputation, appearance, gender identities, place-specific institutions, and power relations (Mackinnon et al., 2002; Ettlinger, 2003; Gertler, 2003; Murphy, 2003; Leyshon et al., 2004; Blake and Hanson, 2005; Glückler, 2005).”
Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place (2011, background): “, 2007) to a growing interest in household and retail finances (French and Kneale, 2009; Leyshon et al., 2004; Smith et al., 2006) and ‘alternative’ forms of financial service provision (Leyshon et al.”
The democratization of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions (2007, background): “…while others have analysed the impact on the corporation and the economy (e.g. Krippner, 2005, or Crotty, 2005) and some focus on individuals, households and identity in the ‘financialization of everyday life’ (Martin, 2002; see also Burton et al., 2004; Clark et al., 2004; Leyshon et al., 2004).”
Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding (2017, background): “The concept of monetary and financial ecologies was elaborated initially to account for the persistence of so-called ‘relic’ forms of financial activity – high-cost door-to-door money-lending and household insurance – in poorer urban areas in the UK during the 1990s (Leyshon et al. 2004; Leyshon et ”
Financial exclusion and the geography of bank and building society branch closure in Britain (2008, background): “In the absence of mainstream financial services, which continue to close branches in such areas, a host of specialist sub-prime or ‘fringe’ retail financial institutions ply their trade (Burton et al. 2004; Leyshon et al. 2004, 2006).”
Financializing space, spacing financialization (2011, background): “Within such a formulation, the financial ecology of the middle-class suburb can be seen as one of relative privilege, with deep and close connections to the financial system (French et al., 2009; Lee at al, 2009; Leyshon et al., 2004).”
Re-engaging with rationality in economic geography: behavioural approaches and the importance of context in decision-making (2007, background): “…and consumption of financial products (Clark et al., 2004; Cronqvist, 2005; Mullainathan and Shleifer, 2005), and differences in local 'ecologies' of finance (Leyshon et al., 2004), which has striven to document the importance of social, cultural and political factors in consumption choices.”
Geographies of money and finance II (2012, background): “Leyshon et al. (2004) demonstrate the utility of this approach through the identification of two idealized types of ecology: first, the middle-class ecology in which highly financially literate subjects use a range of distribution channels to access financial services; and, second, ‘relic’…”
The remit of financial geography—before and after the crisis (2009, background): “…the way in which these bonds represented an extension of the mainstream financial system into financial ecologies beyond the prime, middle-class ecologies (Leyshon et al. 2004; Leyshon et al. 2006) that represent the default market for the production of residential mortgage backed financial assets.”
Integrating Finance into Global Production Networks (2014, background): “, 2002a, 2002b; KRIPPNER, 2005; HO, 2009; PIKE and POLLARD, 2010), and households and individuals (LEYSHON et al., 2004; ENGELEN, 2008; LANGLEY, 2008; FRENCH et al., 2011).”