Nicolas Véron

The New Geography of Global Corporate Power

In today's column in La Tribune, I present a list of the world's leading metropolitan areas ranked by the total market capitalisation of large companies headquartered in each of them. This is a rough way to map corporate decision-making power worldwide; the results are revealing.

Download Tribune_080623_en.pdf to read the piece in English, and Download Tribune_080623.pdf to view it as originally published in French.

Two Learning Curves on Sovereign Wealth Funds

This month, the French Association of Financial Economy (AEF) published its yearly report.

I contributed a piece on sovereign wealth funds - Download RAM_SWFs_May2008.pdf to read it (in French only).

Europe's Asset Management Revolution?

In today's column, I wonder whether the financial crisis may encourage some of Continental Europe's universal banks to divest their asset management arms, as recent deals by Belgium's Fortis and Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena perhaps suggest. This would accelerate the transformation of Europe's increasingly important asset management industry.

Download Tribune_080602_en.pdf to read the piece in English, and Download Tribune_080602.pdf as originally published in French.