金融地理学研究综述与展望

Review and Prospects on Financial Geography

金融地理学作为经济地理学的重要分支领域,其研究成果对维护金融业稳定运行,从而促进社会经济发展具有重要意义。基于地理学视角,首先梳理了国际金融地理学发展历程与主要研究领域。根据特定时期内主流研究方法的差异性,可将其发展历程划分为萌芽、政治经济学主导和经济地理学文化转向影响三个阶段。借助文献计量分析,将国际金融地理学研究划分为以金融中心、金融主体的空间演化、金融网络与区域互动为主的经典研究领域,和以不同尺度金融化进程为主的新兴研究领域。随后总结了中国金融地理学研究进展。中国金融地理学虽起步较晚,研究广度与深度相比于国外仍有差距,但其区别于西方的制度背景为自身特异性的金融景观提供了多元化的解释。最后,结合国内外金融地理学的发展现状对该学科的研究前景进行了展望。

Financial geography is an important branch of economic geography, which is significant to improve the stability of financial industry that can promote the rapid and sustainable development of social economy. This paper firstly summarizes the developing process and major research fields of international financial geography from a geographical perspective. According to distinct mainstream research methods in different periods, the developing process can be separated into three stages that are the embryonic stage, the stage dominated by political economy and the stage influenced by the culture turn of economic geography. By using bibliometrics, we can divide research fields into the classic field, mainly including financial centers, spatial distributions and evolutionary processes of financial subjects and the interplay of financial networks and regional developments, and the burgeoning field majorly composed of different levels of financialization. Next, this study inspects the research progress of financial geography in China. Though it starts relatively late, its unique institutional context provides diversified explanations for specific financial landscapes. Finally,there are some prospects of financial geography in the future.