1.
The Origins of Mutual Funds
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-48
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 16 Dec 2004
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance
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5,406
2.
Law and the Rise of the Firm
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
There are 3 versions of this paper
Law and the Rise of the Firm
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jan 2006
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2,998
Law and the Rise of the Firm
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 31 Jul 2006
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848
Law and the Rise of the Firm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
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2,998
3.
New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 108, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 585-607
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 01 Apr 2009
Last Revised: 12 May 2018
Working Paper Series
Tilburg University - Department of Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 108, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 585-607
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 01 Apr 2009
Last Revised: 12 May 2018
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2,456
New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
NBER Working Paper No. w15332
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 15 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2015
Downloads
74
Downloads
2,456
4.
Riding the South Sea Bubble
American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 5, 2004
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 12 Jan 2004
Last Revised: 10 Oct 2012
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
There are 2 versions of this paper
Riding the South Sea Bubble
American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 5, 2004
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 12 Jan 2004
Last Revised: 10 Oct 2012
Downloads
1,847
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22
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1,847
5.
Economists, Crises and Cartoons
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 06 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice and University of Richmond - Jepson School of Leadership Studies
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1,509
6.
The Origins of the German Corporation - Finance, Ownership and Control
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 110/2005, AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper, EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper, Review of Finance, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 537-585, 2006
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 23 Mar 2005
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2008
Working Paper Series
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, University of Oxford - Said Business School and Bocconi University - Department of Finance
Downloads
1,390
7.
Financial Asset Holdings and Political Attitudes: Evidence from Revolutionary England
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 05 Oct 2006
Last Revised: 14 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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1,200
8.
Bills of Exchange and the Money Market to 1600
Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-04
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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1,144
9.
Risk Instruments in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy
Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-07
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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1,100
10.
Is There a Tulip in Your Future?: Ruminations on Tulip Mania and the Innovative Dutch Futures Markets
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 151-170, December 2004
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 21 Nov 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Syracuse University - College of Law
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1,092
11.
Merchant Banking in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy
Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-05
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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1,065
12.
Collective Hallucinations and Inefficient Markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s
Number of pages: 322
Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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1,019
13.
The Capital Market Before 1600
Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-06
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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954
14.
From St. Ives to Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion of the Medieval 'Law Merchant'
American University International Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 685-812, 2006
Number of pages: 128
Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
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946
15.
This Time is Different: An Example of a Giant, Wildly Speculative, and Successful Investment Mania
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 60, 2010
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 23 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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905
16.
Law and the Rise of the Firm
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
There are 3 versions of this paper
Law and the Rise of the Firm
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Downloads
2,998
Law and the Rise of the Firm
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Downloads
848
Law and the Rise of the Firm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
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848
17.
Early Deposit Banking
Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-03
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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836
18.
Will History Rhyme? The Past as Financial Future
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-19
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 29 Jun 2004
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance
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822
19.
A Unified Italy? - Sovereign Debt and Investor Scepticism
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 20 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 17 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Goethe University Frankfurt - Research Center SAFE
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760
20.
The Formation of the East India Company as a Cooperation-Enhancing Institution
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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693
21.
The Extralegal Development of Securities Trading in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 43, No. 2, p. 321, 2003
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 16 Sep 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Trinity College
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684
22.
Classical Influences on the Law and Politics of the French Revolution
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, Salvatore Settis, eds., Harvard, 2009
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
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671
23.
'Running in the Family': The Evolution of Ownership, Control, and Performance in German Family-Owned Firms, 1903-2003
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 06-13
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 16 Mar 2006
Working Paper Series
Swiss Finance Institute, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund and Elephant Equity
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664
24.
Law, Finance and the First Corporations
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RULE OF LAW, James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, L. Cabatingan, eds., Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 21 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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664
25.
Those Dishonest Goldsmiths
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 14 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
The Cato Institute
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662
26.
Charles Mackay's Own Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Railway Mania
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 14 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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629
27.
Early Development of the Romania's Banking System and the Role of Foreign Banks
Universita Degli Studi di Milano Working Paper No. 2008-35
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 13 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Università Degli Studi di Milano and Universitatea Spiru Haret
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608
28.
The Formation of the East India Company as a Deal between Entrepreneurs and Outside Investors
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 25 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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601
29.
Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 02-39
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 06 Nov 2002
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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599
30.
The Firm as an Entity Before the Companies Acts
ADVENTURES OF THE LAW: PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTEENTH BRITISH LEGAL HISTORY CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, 2003, P. Brand, K. Costello and W.N. Osborough, eds., pp. 267-288, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 47/2006
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 02 Nov 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and University of Oxford
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597
31.
Finance Before the Industrial Revolution: An Introduction
Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-01
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 04 Mar 1999
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Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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568
32.
From Competition to Cartel: Bank Mergers in the U.K. 1885 to 1925
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 06 Feb 2010
Last Revised: 13 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Montreal - Department of Economics, University of Bonn - Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics and Tilburg University - Center and Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
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550
33.
Law, Politics and the Rise and Fall of German Stock Market Development, 1870-1938
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 283/2015, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 4/2015
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 13 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Department of Finance & Accounting and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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522
34.
On Limited Liability and the Development of Capital Markets: An Historical Analysis
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 09 Dec 1996
Working Paper Series
University of Toronto - Department of Economics
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509
35.
Investor Sentiment and Antitrust Law as Determinants of Corporate Ownership Structure: The Great Merger Wave of 1897 to 1903
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 15 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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497
36.
Banking as an Emerging Technology: Hoare's Bank 1702-1742
MIT Economics Working Paper No. 04-01
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 12 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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468
37.
Credit Rationing and Crowding Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862
MIT Economics Working Paper No. 04-05
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 06 Feb 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Credit Rationing and Crowding Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862
MIT Economics Working Paper No. 04-05
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 06 Feb 2004
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467
Credit Rationing and Crowding-Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4453
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 28 Jul 2004
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17
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467
38.
Fatalistically Flawed: A Review Essay on Fragile by Design, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 04 Feb 2015
Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
The Cato Institute
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454
39.
Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 13 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 28 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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452
40.
Securitization of Sovereign Debt: Corporations as a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism in Britain, 1694-1750
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 11 Jun 2007
Last Revised: 12 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Texas Christian University - Department of Economics
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443
41.
Trading Costs in Early Securities Markets: The Case of the Berlin Stock Exchange 1880-1910
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 19 Sep 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Vienna - Faculty of Business, Economics, and Statistics and Emory University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Trading Costs in Early Securities Markets: The Case of the Berlin Stock Exchange 1880-1910
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 19 Sep 2006
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430
Trading Costs in Early Securities Markets: The Case of the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1880-1910
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5827
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 10 Nov 2006
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38
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430
42.
Financialization of the Early Victorian Economy and the London Stock Exchange
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 01 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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425
43.
Dividend Policies in an Unregulated Market: The London Stock Exchange 1895-1905
CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2008-83, EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 14 Feb 2009
Last Revised: 16 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Montreal - Department of Economics and Tilburg University - Center and Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
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417
44.
Liquidity and Contagion: The Crisis of 1763
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 07 Oct 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Bonn - Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
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406
45.
What Is a Market Crash?
Economic History Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 15 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 24 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Toulouse Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
What Is a Market Crash?
Economic History Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 15 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 24 Mar 2017
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392
What is a Market Crash?
The Economic History Review, Vol. 71, Issue 2, pp. 480-505, 2018
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 19 Apr 2018
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392
46.
Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 194
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 29 May 2015
Working Paper Series
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
There are 3 versions of this paper
Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 194
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 29 May 2015
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387
Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution
NBER Working Paper No. w21280
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 22 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 24 Jun 2015
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15
Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10652
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 16 Jun 2015
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387
47.
Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 146
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 28 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Tecnocampus, Tilburg University and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
There are 3 versions of this paper
Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 146
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 28 Mar 2014
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384
Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History
CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2013-042
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 20 Aug 2013
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135
Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9652
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 17 Sep 2013
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384
48.
Testing Asset Pricing Theory on Six Hundred Years of Stock Returns: Prices and Dividends for the Bazacle Company from 1372 to 1946
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Paris December 2014 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI Paper
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 29 May 2014
Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Toulouse Business School, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Toulouse School of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Testing Asset Pricing Theory on Six Hundred Years of Stock Returns: Prices and Dividends for the Bazacle Company from 1372 to 1946
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Paris December 2014 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI Paper
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 29 May 2014
Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
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380
Testing Asset Pricing Theory on Six Hundred Years of Stock Returns: Prices and Dividends for the Bazacle Company from 1372 to 1946
NBER Working Paper No. w20199
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 11 Jun 2014
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13
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380
49.
Government Equity and Money: John Law's System in 1720 France
FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2003-31
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 16 Mar 2004
Working Paper Series
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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353
50.
Risky Business: Popular Images and Reality of Capital Markets Handling Risk - From the Tulip Craze to the Decade of Greed
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 02 Oct 2007
Working Paper Series
Syracuse University - College of Law
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344
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