Abstract:Assets are central for the functioning of financial markets but have, to date, seen only little attention from scholars of financial infrastructures. This chapter seeks to address this shortcoming and argues that assets are important mediators between financial activity and financial infrastructures. To this end, this chapter draws on the notion of ‘boundary objects’ from science and technology studies to analyze the manifold interactions enabled by the asset form. To investigate the links between assets and f… Show more
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