Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 539
Cover Image
Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration : Evidence from Us Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860
Crucini, Mario J. - 2015
We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion for 14 commodities from 1732 to 1860. The prices are reported for US cities and Swedish market towns, so we can compare international and intranational dispersion. Distance and commodity-specific fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033353
Cover Image
The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Steier, Lloyd - 2013
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754560
Cover Image
Convergence and risk-return linkages across financial service firms
Elyasiani, Elyas; Mansur, Iqbal; Pagano, Michael S. - In: Journal of banking & finance 31 (2007) 4, pp. 1167-1190
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459177
Cover Image
Bidder returns in bancassurance mergers : is there evidence of synergy?
Fields, L. Paige; Fraser, Donald R.; Kolari, James W. - In: Journal of banking & finance 31 (2007) 12, pp. 3646-3662
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003604354
Cover Image
Citicorp-travelers group merger : challenging barriers between banking and insurance
Carow, Kenneth A. - In: Journal of banking & finance 25 (2001) 8, pp. 1553-1571
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001594020
Cover Image
Awareness, determinants and value of reputation risk management : empirical evidence from the banking and insurance industry
Heidinger, Dinah; Gatzert, Nadine - In: Journal of banking & finance 91 (2018), pp. 106-118
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963642
Cover Image
Large Block Shareholders, Institutional Investors, Boards of Directors and Bank Value in the Nineteenth Century
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2013
Share prices of modern corporations are influenced by the size and structure of boards of directors, large individual and institutional investors, and shareholder voting rights, among other governance features. It is not clear whether the same features mattered historically, given recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083396
Cover Image
Short-Term Loans and Long-Term Relationships : Relationship Lending in Early America
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2001
Recent banking theory holds that durable firm-bank relationships are valuable to both parties. Using contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787535
Cover Image
How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105459
Cover Image
Emigration During the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Franck, Raphael - 2017
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945603