Dr Adam Dixon

Research summary

My research interest straddles the boundaries of several disciplines, primarily that of geography, political science, sociology and economics. I am currently engaged in three research areas:

1) Financial Geography and Economic Development:

A large part of my research is focused on political and economic geographies of financial institutions, particularly large institutional investors. More specifically, this research focuses on understanding the relationship between the political development of institutional investors and economic development at different geographic scales.

2) Political Geography of Sovereign Wealth Funds:

This area of research is interested in conceptualizing the relationship between sovereignty and the sovereign wealth fund.

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Links

• School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
•   Global Projects Center, Stanford University
•   Academia.edu Profile
• Linkedin Profile

Recent publications

• Clark, GL, Dixon, AD & Monk, AH 2013, ‘Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power’. Princeton University Press
• Dixon, A 2012, ‘Function before form: macro-institutional comparison and the geography of finance’. Journal of Economic Geography, vol 12., pp. 579 - 600

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