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Anastasia Nesvetailova

  • Professor of International Political Economy, City, University of London

Anastasia Nesvetailova is Professor of International Political Economy at City, University of London, where she also directs City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC).   

Anastasia’s main research focuses on the structure of the global financial system, processes of financialization, financial crises and governance. Her key publications include Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit (2007), Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion  (2010) and Shadow Banking Scope, Origins Theories (2017). In addition, Prof. Nesvetailova has authored numerous academic and media articles on financial crises, stability and regulation.

She is currently working on the political economy of financial innovation, systemic risk, shadow banking and wealth management. Between 2015 and 2016, Anastasia served as member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the Shadow Chancellor of the UK.  

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The Functional Importance of Asset Backed Securities

Paper Conference paper | By Anastasia Nesvetailova | Oct 2017

An Assessment and Some Policy Implications

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Still Swimming Against the Tide?

40 Years of Thinking on Trade and Development

YSI Event Workshop YSI | Aug 1–7, 2021

The 4th UNCTAD YSI Summer School celebrates the approach and legacy of UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Report (TDR). The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.

Reawakening

From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time

Event Plenary | Oct 21–23, 2017

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.