Dylan Cassar
Biographic Data
| ID | 209990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan Cassar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dylan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassar |
| SIGNATURE | CASSAR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7432-8330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Relational state-market hybridity: The yield curve and coordination of monetary futures
Contemporary monetary governance under financialization is increasingly organized through hybrid arrangements in which central banks and financial markets are (infra)structurally interdependent. Drawing on more than 50 interviews with market participants and central bank officials, this paper examines how this hybridity is enacted and sustained through the yield curve, a hybrid monetary device embedded in material semiotic arrangements that link …
(Re-)assembling the gilt-edged market: Quantification, model misfire, and the politics of expertise in post war Britain
This article explores the contested (re)-assembly of the UK gilt-edged market between the 1950s and 1980s, foregrounding the ever-shifting process of quantification in stockbroking firms that made and remade the market. Drawing on archival materials and oral history interviews, it first traces the consolidation of sociotechnical agencements, made up of actuaries, yield models and quantified evaluation practices in stockbroking research department…
Entryways to homeownership: Family strategies and intergenerational transfers in Malta’s housing system under financialisation
As housing markets across Europe become increasingly financialised, a question has been raised over whether Southern European housing regimes, traditionally characterised by strong family-based welfare, are being displaced by liberal, financialised models. By focusing on the case of Malta, this paper argues that, rather than being disrupted, familial systems are finding new opportunities in those very same processes. Current literature has emphas…
Enacting efficient markets: The performativity of quantitative easing
Quantitative easing (QE) has been a favourite tool of central banks in their post-financial crisis monetary policy apparatus. Social science literature has interpreted QE as a shift away from performative governance characterising pre-crisis monetary policy. With reference to the Bank of England's experience, I offer a reinterpretation of QE as a performative intervention in the conditions of financial markets, as an attempt to alter the state of…
Economics as intervention: Expert struggles over quantitative easing at the Bank of England
How does a technocratic entity, such as a central bank, craft a key policy intervention when faced with limits to established frameworks of governance? This article explores the Bank of England's turn to unconventional policy in 2009 drawing on a set of eighteen in-depth interviews with former members of the Monetary Policy Committee, Executive team, and staff economists, and a corpus of documents. Adopting Goffman's 'framing analysis', it argues…
Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats
Financial markets have become synonymous with quantitative models and mathematical techniques. This idea has taken on a particularly pejorative undertone in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 financial
Economics as intervention: Expert struggles over quantitative easing at the Bank of England
How does a technocratic entity, such as a central bank, craft a key policy intervention when faced with limits to established frameworks of governance? This article explores the Bank of England's turn to unconventional policy in 2009 drawing on a set of eighteen in-depth interviews with former members of the Monetary Policy Committee, Executive team, and staff economists, and a corpus of documents. Adopting Goffman's 'framing analysis', it argues…
Enacting efficient markets: The performativity of quantitative easing
Quantitative easing (QE) has been a favourite tool of central banks in their post-financial crisis monetary policy apparatus. Social science literature has interpreted QE as a shift away from performative governance characterising pre-crisis monetary policy. With reference to the Bank of England's experience, I offer a reinterpretation of QE as a performative intervention in the conditions of financial markets, as an attempt to alter the state of…
Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats
Financial markets have become synonymous with quantitative models and mathematical techniques. This idea has taken on a particularly pejorative undertone in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 financial
Economics as intervention: Expert struggles over quantitative easing at the Bank of England
How does a technocratic entity, such as a central bank, craft a key policy intervention when faced with limits to established frameworks of governance? This article explores the Bank of England's turn to unconventional policy in 2009 drawing on a set of eighteen in-depth interviews with former members of the Monetary Policy Committee, Executive team, and staff economists, and a corpus of documents. Adopting Goffman's 'framing analysis', it argues…
Enacting efficient markets: The performativity of quantitative easing
Quantitative easing (QE) has been a favourite tool of central banks in their post-financial crisis monetary policy apparatus. Social science literature has interpreted QE as a shift away from performative governance characterising pre-crisis monetary policy. With reference to the Bank of England's experience, I offer a reinterpretation of QE as a performative intervention in the conditions of financial markets, as an attempt to alter the state of…
Relational state-market hybridity: The yield curve and coordination of monetary futures
Contemporary monetary governance under financialization is increasingly organized through hybrid arrangements in which central banks and financial markets are (infra)structurally interdependent. Drawing on more than 50 interviews with market participants and central bank officials, this paper examines how this hybridity is enacted and sustained through the yield curve, a hybrid monetary device embedded in material semiotic arrangements that link …
(Re-)assembling the gilt-edged market: Quantification, model misfire, and the politics of expertise in post war Britain
This article explores the contested (re)-assembly of the UK gilt-edged market between the 1950s and 1980s, foregrounding the ever-shifting process of quantification in stockbroking firms that made and remade the market. Drawing on archival materials and oral history interviews, it first traces the consolidation of sociotechnical agencements, made up of actuaries, yield models and quantified evaluation practices in stockbroking research department…
Entryways to homeownership: Family strategies and intergenerational transfers in Malta’s housing system under financialisation
As housing markets across Europe become increasingly financialised, a question has been raised over whether Southern European housing regimes, traditionally characterised by strong family-based welfare, are being displaced by liberal, financialised models. By focusing on the case of Malta, this paper argues that, rather than being disrupted, familial systems are finding new opportunities in those very same processes. Current literature has emphas…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 works) · Business (1 works)