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We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming conference, "Methodological Pluralism in Critical Finance Research," which will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt on 3–4 July 2025. The conference aims to foster discussions about the diverse methods and tools used in critical finance research, encouraging reflections on sources, methodologies, and their contributions to understanding global finance and financialized capitalism.

We invite submissions of short abstracts (300 words) by 14 February 2025 that clearly indicate the empirical sources and/or methodological tools applied in your research. Both papers with a primary methodological focus and conventional research papers are welcome. In both cases, we ask authors to discuss the methods that were applied to studying finance. Submissions should be sent to: globalfinancemethods@gmail.com.

Travel support is available for early career researchers without funding—please indicate this in your submission. For full details, please check the attached CfP or via the following link: https://tinyurl.com/3jbshp49.

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In January, we launched the Methods in Global Finance research network. The aim of the network is to engage and develop the methodological pluralism of critical finance research. The network is led by Guadalupe Moreno (Goethe University Frankfurt), Johannes Petry (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Ruben Kremers (JGU Mainz). It is funded by the Rhein-Main-University (RMU) Early Career Researcher Initiative and will run for two years.

The methodological pluralism of critical finance research:

This is an interesting moment for the study of global finance. As the intellectual challenges posed by the 2007-2009 financial crisis have lost their integrative force, scholars have expanded research agendas to include a broader range of topics, including financial subordination, financial hegemony, central banking, digital finance, sustainable finance, and more. As research topics have multiplied, so have methodological repertoires. Current work encompasses methodologies as diverse as experimental design, network analysis, expert interviews, and archival work and at the same time taps into a growing range of public and private data sources. But while the empirical and theoretical expansion of global finance scholarship has received considerable attention, its methodological pluralism has remained underexplored. To address this gap, the network will organize a conference, several methods training sessions, a book workshop, and publish an edited volume over the next two years.

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Who benefits from the business feminism of the fintech sector? In a new blog post, Dr Ruben Kremers suggests that the answer to this question is not always straightforward.

The post was published in German on the eFin blog of the Centre for Responsible Digitalisation and is available here.

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Prof Helen Callaghan and Dr Ruben Kremers attended the 29th Academic Conference of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). The event took place at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 24-27 September.

The program of the congress can be found here.

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