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History of Corporate Finance

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ISBN-10: 0521655366

ISBN-13: 9780521655361

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jonathan Barron Baskin, Paul J. Miranti

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This study focuses on the role of institutions and organisations in the historical development of corporate finance. The book provides an overview of the evolution of practice in this field from the Italian merchant banks of the Renaissance through the formation of conglomerates and leveraged-buy-out partnerships in contemporary Wall Street. It also puts forth a compelling argument for the closer integration of historical and quantitative research methodologies in advancing finance theory. Additionally, the epilogue defines an original algorithm that explains the relationship between the short-term, firm-specific factors and longer-term environmental elements that have shaped the historical…    
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Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Preface
History and the modern theory of finance
Medieval and Renaissance origins
Corporate finance in an age of global exploration: trading companies and oceanic discovery, 1450-1720
The emergence of public markets for investment securities, 1688-1815
Finance in an age of canals and railroads, 1775-1900
Common stock finance and the rise of managerial capitalism, 1900-1940
The financing of center firms, 1940-1973
Conglomerates and leveraged buy-out partnerships
Finance and informational asymmetries in the ancient world
International patterns of corporate governance
Epilogue
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