'Dutch and East India Companies compared. Evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets' in J D Tracy (ed), Rise of Merchant Empires. Long distance trade in the early modern world, 1350-1750
Details:
- Author(s) Neal, Larry
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1990
- Pages pp195-223
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
Countries:
- Netherlands
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Uses stock prices of both companies - Dutch, 1723-94, and English, from 1698 - 'to weigh the relative importance of organizational, commercial and political factors in determining the fortunes of each company over the course of the eighteenth century when the English company overtook the Dutch', linking price movements to issues influencing performance