作者：University of Groningen; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
作者：Wageningen University & Research
摘要：This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the origins of globalization. It examines the process of commodity price convergence, an indicator of globalization, between Europe and Asia on the basis of newly obtained price data from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives. Prices for many commodities in the Dutch-Asiatic trade converged already in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a result of the growth of trade and competition among traders and companies. The extent of conv...
作者：University of Stirling; Queens University Belfast; Queens University Belfast; University of West England
摘要：Scholars have long debated whether ownership matters for firm performance. The standard view regarding Victorian Britain is that family-controlled companies had a detrimental effect on performance. In this article, we examine this view using a hand-collected corporate ownership dataset. Our main finding is that it was not necessarily the broad structure of corporate ownership that mattered for performance, but whether family blockholders had a governance role. Large active blockholders tended ...
作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Richmond
作者：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; United States Naval Academy
