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Duncan Wigan

Assistant professor
Duncan Wigan

Department of Business and Politics

Porcelænshaven 24, st.
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3541
Fax:+45 3815 3555
E-mail: dw.dbp@cbs.dk



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I received my doctorate, ‘A Global Political Economy of Derivatives: Risk, Property and the Artifice of Indifference’, at the University of Sussex in December 2008. My core research focuses on the global financial system, financialisation and the political economy of financial innovation. In this, I utilise an avowedly historicist, qualitative and interpretative method bridging the traditions of political economy and economic sociology. I am currently particularly interested in the old institutionalists, such as Veblen and Commons, prominent at the turn of the last century. A related research and teaching interest is the offshore world, which plays a, if not the, central role in global finance, and through which core themes of political economy (the state, production and finance) can be elaborated and integrated.

Primary research areas

  • Financial Innovation, Organisation and Regulation
  • Financialisation
  • Evolution of Property
  • The Offshore World


Selected publications

  • (2009) ‘Financialisation and Derivatives: The Political Construction of an Artifice of Indifference’ Competition and Change, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 159-174
  • Forthcoming (March 2010) ‘Credit Risk Transfer and Crunches: Global Finance Victorious or Vanquished?’, New Political Economy, special issue arising from September 2008 Warwick workshop on the ‘Subprime’ crisis.
  • Book Review, Dick Bryan and Mike Rafferty (2006), Capitalism with Derivatives: A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class, Palgrave Macmillan: London, in International Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 3, (May 2007), pp. 518-519.
  • Libby Assassi, Anastasia Nesvetailova and Duncan Wigan (eds.) Global Finance in the New Century: Beyond Deregulation, London: Palgrave, (2006).
  • Book Review, Timothy J. Sinclair (2005), The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness, Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London, in International Affairs Vol. 82 No. 1 (2006), pp. 218-219
  • Libby Assassi, Kees van der Pijl, and Duncan Wigan (eds.), Global Regulation: Managing Crises After the Imperial Turn, London: Palgrave, (2004)

Other

  • David Wigan and Duncan Wigan (eds.) Corporate Capital, International Financing Review, London: Thomson Reuters (2008).
  • David Wigan and Duncan Wigan (eds.) Investing in Inflation, International Financing Review, London: Thomson Reuters (2009).
  • Duncan Wigan (ed.) Credit Derivatives – The March to Maturity, International Financing Review, London: Thomson Reuters (forthcoming February 2010).


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