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Huth & Co.'s credit strategies: A global merchant-banker's risk management, c. 1810-1850
Llorca-Jaña, Manuel - In: Estudios de Economía 42 (2015) 2, pp. 17-43
Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870 - 1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a … crucial role by advancing monies to consignors of products all over the world. Without this form of credit, many international …. During this expansionary period they provided credit to many of their connections all over the world, thus becoming an …
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Huth & Co.'s Credit Strategies : A Global Merchant-Banker's Risk Management, c. 1810-1850
Llorca‐Jaña, Manuel - 2015
Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870-1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a … crucial role by advancing monies to consignors of products all over the world. Without this form of credit, many international …. During this expansionary period they provided credit to many of their connections all over the world, thus becoming an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010994
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The anatomy of a bubble company : the London Assurance in 1720
Acheson, Graeme G.; Aldous, Michael; Quinn, William - 2022
Research on the financial events of 1720 in Britain has overwhelmingly focused on the South Sea Company, but price movements were much more dramatic in the shares of the newly incorporated London Assurance (LA) Company. This paper uses unique archival material on the London Assurance to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256339
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Italy and the First Age of Globalization, 1861-1940
James, Harold; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2013
agriculture, with levels of protection falling slightly before the First World War. Monetary policy was similarly driven by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159592
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Merchant Bank Acceptances and the British Economy, 1880-1913
Jansson, Walter - 2018
This paper examines the role of an important type of instrument in international trade financing - the merchant bank acceptance - in the pre-WW1 British economy. A new dataset on merchant bank acceptances from 1880 to 1913 is analysed through the lens of recent developments in time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920855
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Charles Mackay's Own Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Railway Mania
Odlyzko, Andrew - 2012
Charles Mackay's book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" enjoys extraordinarily high renown in the financial industry and among the press and the public. It also has an extraordinarily low reputation among historians.This paper argues that Mackay's sins of commission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114090
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521411
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523499
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The commerce of comfort : exploring retail trade and consumer patterns in late 18th-century Courland
Baumgartl, Matthias; Kruk, Oliver - In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 112 (2025) 1, pp. 59-96
While several studies have shed light on the emergence of consumer society in Western Europe and the Atlantic world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015406842
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Bridging the empire : construction projects of the Gutehoffnungshütte in the colonial state of Cameroon (1909-1914)
Kleinöder, Nina - In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 112 (2025) 2, pp. 158-183
state of Cameroon is used to analyse colonial networks in the first wave of globalization as well as connecting colonial …
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