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SUMMARY:Woman in finance & Formalisation through taxation - Two student pr
 esentations - Kristina Kaempfer (St Antony's College\, Oxford)\, Jonas Ric
 hter (St Antony's College\, Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:A feminist analysis of women’s work experiences in finance -
  Kristina Kaempfer\nIn a 2009 Guardian article\, Ruth Sutherland raised th
 e question If Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters\, run by women inste
 ad of men\, would the credit crunch have happened? Both within feminist th
 eory and behavioural economics\, the gendered dimension of the global fina
 ncial crisis – its cause(s) as well as its consequence(s) – remain con
 tested. Attributing risk-taking behaviour to male investment bankers\, a m
 ajority of these gendered narratives focuses on masculinity and men. By do
 ing so\, they overlook women’s work experiences in financial services. \
 nBut how do women navigate one of the most uncontested spaces of male priv
 ilege and especially the stereotypes that shape not only their participati
 on and representation in this space but also their work? What understandin
 g of equality does the finance industry nurture and how do women working i
 n finance relate to policies promoting gender equality? And under which co
 nditions are women actually able to succeed in finance? For my presentatio
 n\, I will draw on a first round of interviews I conducted in March 2016 f
 or my MSt dissertation. For this\, I spoke to ten women working in junior 
 and senior positions in Frankfurt and London about their experience as a w
 oman in finance. I will discuss the implications of my research for femini
 st theory and financial geography\, within which my current DPhil project 
 on women in finance is situated. \n\nReducing informality through taxation
 : The case of Paraguay - Jonas Richter\nInformality remains a prevalent an
 d persistent issue in developing countries such as Paraguay. At the same t
 ime a growing literature argues for an interrelation between a broader tax
  base and a country’s economic as well as democratic development. A stra
 nd of this literature accordingly focuses on the means of taxing the infor
 mal sector and argues in this regard for positive revenue\, growth and pol
 itical implications of such an approach. Based on semi-structured\, open-e
 nded interviews with market participants\, bureaucrats\, current and forme
 r leading politicians and experts\, this thesis analyses Paraguay’s 2004
  and 2012 tax reforms\, which lead to a broader tax base. It shows that in
  particular the country’s personal income tax\, as well as other alterat
 ions in the tax system\, constitute an incentive mechanism that leads to a
  formalisation process of economic activity and thus to the wider tax base
 . In this regard\, the thesis outlines the policy drafting and implementat
 ion process\, it illustrates\, also upon tax data\, how the reform initiat
 es a rising demand of formalised purchases from both customers and busines
 ses\, and hints towards a potential way of how the taxpayer respond politi
 cally to the enhanced fiscal imperative.\n\nSpeakers:\nKristina Kaempfer (
 St Antony's College\, Oxford)\, Jonas Richter (St Antony's College\, Oxfor
 d)
LOCATION:St Antony's College - North Site (Seminar Room\, European Studies
  Centre\, 70 Woodstock Road\, Oxford OX2 6HR)
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6570c8b7-eba9-4429-a28c-20d3a61b8843/
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