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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27844| Appears in Collections: | Accounting and Finance Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Share Trading Activity and the Rise of the Rentier in the UK before 1920 |
| Author(s): | Acheson, Graeme G Coyle, Christopher Jordan, David P Turner, John D |
| Contact Email: | graeme.acheson@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | Share trading London Stock Exchange Insurance Investor Rentier World War I |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Date Deposited: | 25-Sep-2018 |
| Citation: | Acheson GG, Coyle C, Jordan DP & Turner JD (2020) Share Trading Activity and the Rise of the Rentier in the UK before 1920. Business History, 62 (6), pp. 982-1001. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1502751 |
| Abstract: | Using a hand-collected dataset, we examine share trading activity over the period 1882 to 1920 for the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, one of the largest UK companies of the time. Our main finding is that the steady flow of rentiers into the shareholding constituency of this company stymied share trading activity. Another important finding is that share trading still occurred during the closure of the Stock Exchange in 1914, but on a much-reduced scale. We also find that there was a substantial boom in share trading and in insurance stock prices after World War I. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1080/00076791.2018.1502751 |
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