Dr Ashby Monk
- Research Fellow
- Member of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster
- Email: ashby.monk@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Academic Profile
Ashby H. B. Monk is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, working with Professor Gordon L. Clark on a Leverhulme Trust funded project on the governance and geopolitics of Sovereign Wealth Funds. He also holds a concurrent research fellowship at Boston College's Carroll School of Management within the Center for Retirement Research.
Dr Monk's research is on the design and governance of financial institutions, with particular focus on pension and sovereign wealth funds. He has published numerous academic papers related to the above. He is the editor of a book entitled Managing Financial Risk: from Local to Global (Oxford University Press) and the co-author of a book entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds (Princeton University Press).
Dr Monk was awarded his doctorate in Economic Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment and Christ Church, University of Oxford. He also holds a Masters in International Economics from Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne and a Bachelors in Economics from Princeton University.
Selected Publications
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A.H.B. (forthcoming) Government of Singapore Investment Corporation: Insurer of Last Resort and Bulwark of Nation-State Legitimacy. The Pacific Review.
- Monk, A.H.B. (forthcoming) Recasting the Sovereign Wealth Fund Debate: Trust, Legitimacy, and Governance. New Political Economy.
- Clark, G.L., Dixon, A.D. and Monk, A.H.B. (eds.) (2009) Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local. Oxford University Press.
- Clark, G.L., Dixon, A.D. and Monk, A.H.B. (2009) Introduction. In, Clark, G.L., Dixon, A.D. and Monk, A.H.B. (eds.) (2009) Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local. Oxford University Press. pp.1-26.
- Dixon, A.D. and Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The power of finance: accounting harmonization's effect on pension provision. Journal of Economic Geography.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The Emerging Market for Intellectual Property: Drivers, Restrainers, and Implications. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(4): 469-491.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The Financial Thesis: Reconceptualizing Globalisation's Effect on Firms and Institutions. Competition & Change, 13(1): 51-74.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The geography of pension liabilities and fund governance in the United States. Environment and Planning, A, 41: 859-878.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2008) The interplay between social welfare and competitiveness: The case of Canadian Medicare. Geoforum, 39: 2009–2018.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2008) The Knot of Contracts: The Corporate Geography of Legacy Costs. Economic Geography, 84(2), 211-236.