back

publications


in progress

  • Taylor Spears, Kristian Bondo Hansen, Yuval Millo, and Ruowen Xu. “Governing Synthetic Data in the Financial Sector” Submitted to Finance & Society.

under review

  • Taylor Spears and Marian Gatzweiler, “Beyond novel risks: gradual risk mutation and the rise of ‘credit valuation adjustments’ in the OTC derivatives markets. Under Review at: Accounting, Organizations, and Society.

forthcoming

  • Taylor Spears, “What does it mean to speak of a model’s ontology? Term structure models and their migration from financial economics into the OTC derivatives markets”, Philosophy and Finance: Eleven Issues and Open Questions, Synthese Library.

  • Taylor Spears, “Financial Technology” in Elgar Encyclopedia on Economic Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishers.

  • Kristian Bondo Hansen and Taylor Spears, “Financial Markets” in Elgar Encyclopedia on Economic Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishers.

journal articles

  • Taylor Spears (2019), “Discounting Collateral: Quants, Derivatives, and the Reconstruction of the ‘Risk-Free Rate’ after the Financial Crisis”, Economy and Society 48.3: 342-370.

  • Donald MacKenzie and Taylor Spears (2014), “‘The Formula That Killed Wall Street’: The Gaussian Copula and Modelling Practices in Investment Banking,” Social Studies of Science, 44: pp. 393- 417.

  • Donald MacKenzie and Taylor Spears (2014), “‘A device for being able to book P&L’: The Organisational Embedding of the Gaussian Copula,” Social Studies of Science, 44: pp. 418-440.

  • Frankish, Julian, Richard Roberts, Alex Coad, Taylor Spears, and David Storey (2012), “Do entrepreneurs really learn? Or do they just tell us that they do?,” Industrial and Corporate Change 22.1, pp. 73-106.

book chapters

  • Taylor Spears and Kristian Bondo Hansen (2023), "The Use and Promises of Machine Learning in Financial Markets: From Mundane Practices to Complex Automated Systems” in Oxford Handbook on the Sociology of Machine Learning, Oxford University Press.

  • Taylor Spears (2017), “Matching the Market: Calibration and the Working Practices of Quants”. Invited contribution to edited volume: Finance at Work, Valérie Boussard (ed.), Routledge.

  • Taylor Spears and Donald MacKenzie (2015), “The Cognitive Sociology of Toxic Assets” in Archiv für Mediengeschichte, 14: pp. 163

essays

  • Taylor Spears (2014), “Fighting over Financial Models”, Risk & Regulation (Spring 2014 Issue).

book reviews

  • Taylor Spears (2020), “The Hidden Power of Technologists”, Review of Juan Pablo Pardo Guerra Au- tomating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets, (Cambridge University Press, 2019), European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie 61 (3), 505-509.

  • Taylor Spears (2016), Review of George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (Princeton University Press, 2015), Quantitative Finance.