Learning and the creation of stock-market institutions: Evidence from the Royal African and Hudson's Bay Companies, 1670-1700
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; College of the Holy Cross
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-0507
DOI：
10.1017/S0022050700020532
发表日期：
1998
页码：
318-344
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摘要：
In this article we use a unique source-a 30-year time series of the share transactions of two joint-stock companies-to examine the growth of the London capital market prior to and immediately after the Glorious Revolution. We argue that the London experience with open capital markets was not solely the result of 1689. Rather it was the learning by private individuals and goldsmith bankers which took place in the decades before 1689 that allowed the market to take full advantage of the property rights changes which occurred with the change in regimes.