I am an academic working at the intersection of Political Economy and Information Systems. My research focuses on financial technologies and AI.
About.
I am an Associate Professor of Financial Technology at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.
My research agenda explores two macro phenomena of contemporary capitalism: financialization (i.e., the growing influence of financial markets, actors, and technologies in today’s world) and digitalization (i.e., the increasing role of digital technologies in human activities). I study both phenomena in their dimensions, intersections, and impacts.
To do so, I draw on several social-scientific fields, mainly International Political Economy (IPE) and Information Systems (IS).
My current research projects explore: the ethical use of financial technologies (fintech); the corporate and political interests shaping the age of artificial intelligence (AI); the sustainability of AI and data-driven technologies.
In my previous work, I am known for having researched the financialization of the state, particularly the governmental use of financial derivatives.
Keywords.
I am available for collaborations on:
Fintech and the future of finance
Business, societal, and political implications of AI
Financialization and financial innovations
Digitalization and digital innovations
Ethics, sustainability, and inclusion
Socio-technical perspective in IS
Power and institutional theory
Qualitative and conceptual research
Published work.
Genito, L., & Lagna, A. (Forthcoming) “Derivatives Market Reforms and the Infrastructural Authority of Central Clearing Counterparties.” In Westermeier, C., Campbell-Verduyn, M., & Brandl, B. (eds.) Cambridge Global Companion to Financial Infrastructures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapter 22.
Lagna, A., & Ravishankar, M. N. (2022) “Making the World a Better Place with Fintech Research”, Information Systems Journal, 32(1): 61–102.
Lagna, A., & Lenglet, M. (2020) “The Dark Side of Liquidity: Shedding Light on Dark Pools’ Market Making and Marketing”, Consumption Markets & Culture, 23(4): 390–406.
Büdenbender, M., & Lagna, A. (2019) “Statecraft Strategies and Housing Financialization at the Periphery: Post-Socialist Trajectories in Russia and Poland”, Finance and Society, 5(2): 105–125.
Lagna, A. (2017) “The Financialization of Local Governments: Evidence from the Italian Case.” In Erturk, I. and Gabor, D. (eds) The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 208–221.
Lagna, A. (2016) “Derivatives and the Financialisation of the Italian State”, New Political Economy, 21(2): 167–186.
Lagna, A. (2015) “Derivatives as Weapons of Mass Deception and Elite Contestation: The Case of FIAT.” In Jessop, B., Young, B. and Scherrer, C. (eds) Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 208–228.
Lagna, A. (2015) “Italian Municipalities and the Politics of Financial Derivatives: Rethinking the Foucauldian Perspective”, Competition & Change, 19(4): 283–300.
Contact me.
Andrea Lagna | he/him
Alliance Manchester Business School
University of Manchester
Booth Street West
Manchester M15 6PB
United Kingdom