World financial centers have an impact on the economies around the world. This particularly applies for the US equity market. Transactions which are performed on the US market define market trends in most of the world's financial markets, the only question that arises "is to what extent"....

The London Stock Exchange was the largest capital market in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, but Britain also had numerous other stock markets based in provincial cities and towns. This paper provides the first in-depth quantitative assessment of these markets. We find that...