Review and Prospect of Financial Geography Research

Abstract

 As an important branch of economic geography, financial geography has important significance for maintaining the stable operation of the financial industry and thus promoting social and economic development. Based on the perspective of geography, we first combed the development history and main research fields of international financial geography. According to the differences of mainstream research methods in a specific period, the development process can be divided into three stages: germination, political economics and economic geography. With the help of literature measurement analysis, the international financial geography research is divided into the classic research field focusing on the financial center, the spatial evolution of financial subjects, the financial network and regional interaction, and the emerging research fields with different scales of financialization. Then it summarizes the progress of China’s financial geography research. Although China’s financial geography started late, there is still a gap between the breadth and depth of research compared to foreign countries, but its institutional background is different from the Western institutional background. It provides a diversified explanation for its own specific financial landscape. Finally, combined with the development status of financial geography at home and abroad, the research prospects of this discipline are prospected.