International Political Economy, Finance and financial crises, Globalisation and Governance, Financial and Monetary Policies, Process of capitalist evolution in Russia and FSU countries
Dr. Anastasia Nesvetaïlova is the Director of the Macroeconomic and Development Policies Branch of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. There, she leads the team responsible for the flagship Trade and Development Report. Prior to this position Anastasia was a Professor of International Political Economy at City, University of London and held visiting fellowships at the University of California, the Levy Institute of Bard College, the Danish Institute of International Studies and CERIS-Diplomatic School of Brussels. In 2015-2016, Anastasia served as a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Shadow Chancellor of the UK. In 2017-2019, she led one of the research teams commissioned by the OECD to analyze the risks of illicit finance in energy trading. Anastasia’s main research has focused on the political economy of finance. She has published widely on issues of financial instability, financial innovation and regulation, including three monographs (Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit, 2007; Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The End of Liquidity Illusion, 2010; and Sabotage: The Business of Finance, 2020, with R. Palan), as well as numerous academic and policy articles on the global financial system.
Dr. Anastasia Nesvetaïlova is Head of the Macroeconomic and Development Policies Branch of UNCTAD (Geneva), where she leads the team responsible for the flagship Trade and Development Report.
Before this position, Dr. Anastasia Nesvetaïlova was a Professor of International Political Economy at the City University of London, where her main research focuses on the structure of the global financial system, processes of financialization, financial crises and governance.
Nesvetailova, A. (2014). Innovations, fragility and complexity: Understanding the power of finance. Government and Opposition, 49(3), pp. 542–568.
Gkanoutas-Leventis, A. and Nesvetailova, A. (2015). Financialisation, oil and the Great Recession. Energy Policy, 86, pp. 891–902.
1. Photis Lysandrou & Anastasia Nesvetailova, 2013. “The Shadow Banking System and the Financial Crisis:A securities production function view,” Working papers wpaper05, Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development (FESSUD) Project.
2. Palan, R. & Nesvetailova, A., 2013. “The Governance of the Black Holes of the World Economy: Shadow Banking and Offshore Finance,” CITYPERC Working Paper Series 2013-03, Department of International Politics, City University London.
1. Anastasia Nesvetailova, 2015. “A Crisis of the Overcrowded Future: Shadow Banking and the Political Economy of Financial Innovation,” New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 431-453, June.
2. Gkanoutas-Leventis, Angelos & Nesvetailova, Anastasia, 2015. “Financialisation, oil and the Great Recession,”Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 891-902.
3. Photis Lysandrou & Anastasia Nesvetailova, 2015. “The role of shadow banking entities in the financial crisis: a disaggregated view,” Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 257-279, April.
4. Anastasia Nesvetailova & Ronen Palan, 2013. “Minsky in the Shadows,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 45(3), pages 349-368, September.
5. A. Nesvetailova., 2011. “Beyond the Minskyan Political Economy: Liquidity and Financial Innovation in the Global Credit Crunch,” VOPROSY ECONOMIKI, N.P. Redaktsiya zhurnala “Voprosy Economiki”, vol. 6.
6. A. Nesvetailova., 2010. “The Lingering Puzzles of the Global Credit Crunch, or an Essay on the Liquidity Illusion,” VOPROSY ECONOMIKI, N.P. Redaktsiya zhurnala “Voprosy Economiki”, vol. 12.
7. Anastasia Nesvetailova, 2006. “Fictitious Capital, Real Debts: Systemic Illiquidity in the Financial Crises of the Late 1990s,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 38(1), pages 45-70, March.
8. A. Nesvetailova., 2005. “The Economic Legacy of Hyman Minsky,” VOPROSY ECONOMIKI, N.P. Redaktsiya zhurnala “Voprosy Economiki”, vol. 3.
1. Anastasia Nesvetailova, 2012. “Liquidity,” Chapters, in: Jan Toporowski & Jo Michell (ed.), Handbook of Critical Issues in Finance, chapter 28, pages i-ii, Edward Elgar Publishing.
2. Anastasia Nesvetailova, 2012. “Liquidity Illusions in the Global Financial Architecture,” Chapters, in: Kern Alexander & Rahul Dhumale (ed.), Research Handbook on International Financial Regulation, chapter 15, Edward Elgar Publishing.
