Independent women : investing in British Railways, 1870-1922

Autor: Graeme G. Acheson, Áine Gallagher, Gareth Campbell, John D. Turner

Publikováno v: Acheson, G G, Campbell, G, Gallagher, A & Turner, J D 2021, ' Independent Women: Investing in British Railways, 1870-1922 ', Economic History Review, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 471-495 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12968

The early twentieth century saw the British capital market reach a state of maturity before any of its global counterparts. This coincided with more women participating directly in the stock market. In this paper, we analyse whether these female shar

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Who financed the expansion of the equity market? Shareholder clienteles in Victorian Britain

Autor: John D. Turner, Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell

Publikováno v: Acheson, G G, Campbell, G & Turner, J D 2017, ' Who Financed the Expansion of the Equity Market? Shareholder Clienteles in Victorian Britain ', Business History, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 607-637 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2016.1250744

Who financed the great expansion of the Victorian equity market, and what attracted them to invest? Using data on 453 firm-years and over 172,000 shareholders, we find that the largest providers of capital were rentiers, men with no formal occupation

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Corporate Ownership, Control, and Firm Performance in Victorian Britain

Autor: John D. Turner, Nadia Vanteeva, Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell

Publikováno v: Acheson, G G, Campbell, G, Turner, J D & Vanteeva, N 2016, ' Corporate Ownership, Control, and Firm Performance in Victorian Britain ', The Journal of Economic History, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 1-40 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050716000450

Scholars have long debated whether ownership structure matters for firm performance. The standard view with respect to Victorian Britain is that family-controlled companies had a detrimental effect on operating profit and shareholder value. Here, we

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Organisational flexibility and governance in a civil-law regime: Scottish partnership banks during the Industrial Revolution

Autor: Charles R. Hickson, John D. Turner, Graeme G. Acheson

Publikováno v: Business History. 53:505-529

Unlike their English counterparts, Scottish partnership banks during the Industrial Revolution operated under partnership law which was similar to the French societe en commandite. The article suggests that the definitive feature of this partnership

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Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870

Autor: Qing Ye, John D. Turner, Charles R. Hickson, Graeme G. Acheson

Publikováno v: The Journal of Economic History. 69:1107-1137

This article presents a new series of monthly equity returns for the British stock market for the period 182570. As well as calculating capital appreciation and dividend yields, the article also attempts to take account of the effect of survivorship

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