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Black Man’s Burden: Measured Philanthropy in the British Empire, 1880-1913

Accominotti, Olivier; Flandreau, Marc; Rezzik, Riad; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Ferguson and Schularick (2006) recently provided a measure of the effect of Empire subjection on borrowing countries’ interest rates. They find this effect to be large and significant, ranging between 80 to 180 basis points. We argue that their methodology is inadequate and that their...

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Crises and Punishment: Moral Hazard and the Pre-1914 International Financial Architecture

Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

remedies that were commonly applied one century ago and find that the international financial world was fairly similar to the …

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Monetary Union, Trade Integration, and Business Cycles in 19th Century Europe: Just Do It

Flandreau, Marc; Maurel, Mathilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper seeks to trace the impact of monetary arrangements on trade integration and business cycle correlation, focusing on Europe in the late 19th century period as a guide for modern debates. For this purpose, we first estimate a gravity model and show that monetary arrangements were...

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Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: Relationship banking and conditionality lending in the London market for government debt, 1815-1913

Flandreau, Marc; Zendejas, Flores; Huitzilihuitl, Juan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper offers a theory of conditionality lending in 19th-century international capital markets. We argue that ownership of reputation signals by prestigious banks rendered them able and willing to monitor government borrowing. Monitoring was a source of rent, and it led bankers to support...

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Caveat Emptor: Coping With Sovereign Risk Without the Multilaterals

Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper studies how private banks dealt with sovereign risk before World War I. At that time there was no … period into the largest international bank in a country that was the second largest world creditor. In 1871, Crédit Lyonnais … it operated before World War I: given the prominence of Crédit Lyonnais on the international scene, its perceptions …

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The Price of Media Capture and the Looting of Newspapers in Interwar France

Bignon, Vincent; Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...

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Has the Introduction of Bookbuilding Increased the Efficiency of International IPOs?

Jenkinson, Tim; Ljungqvist, Alexander P.; Wilhelm Jr, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

By 1999, close to 80% of non-US IPOs were marketed using bookbuilding methods. We study whether the recent introduction of this technology by US banks and their inclusion in non-US IPO syndicates has promoted efficiency in primary equity markets. We analyse both direct and indirect costs...

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Evidence of Information Spillovers in the Production of Investment Banking Services

Benveniste, Lawrence M; Ljungqvist, Alexander P.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We present evidence that firms attempting IPOs learn from the experience of their contemporaries. These information spillovers affect revisions in offer terms and the decision whether to carry through with an offering. The evidence also supports the argument that IPOs are implicitly bundled as a...

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IPO Allocations: Discriminatory or Discretionary?

Ljungqvist, Alexander P.; Wilhelm Jr, William J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We estimate the structural links between IPO allocations, pre-market information production, and initial underpricing returns, within the context of theories of bookbuilding. Using a sample of both US and international IPOs we find evidence of the following: ? IPO allocation policies favour...

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IPO Pricing in the dot-com Bubble

Ljungqvist, Alexander P.; Wilhelm Jr, William J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

IPO initial returns reached astronomical levels during 1999-2000. We show that the regime shift in initial returns and other elements of pricing behaviour can be at least partially accounted for by a variety of marked changes in pre-IPO ownership structure and insider selling behaviour over the...

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