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E-Finance: Causing Major Upheavals in the Spatial Organization of the Financial Sector?

(Some Comments on Paper by Nicole Pohl)

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The paper by Nicole Pohl is a very welcome and timely contribution about the location of financial activity. It fits well into the context of the conference and highlights a particular sector that is probably going to belong to those most dramatically affected by the recent technological innovations in the communication and information technologies largely implemented by the Internet.

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Gehrig, T.P. (2003). E-Finance: Causing Major Upheavals in the Spatial Organization of the Financial Sector?. In: Barfield, C.E., Heiduk, G., Welfens, P.J.J. (eds) Internet, Economic Growth and Globalization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24761-6_9

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