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Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues
This paper discusses the corporate governance of banking institutions in developing economies. This is an important issue given the essential role that banks play in the financial systems of…
Financial Sector Reforms in Developing Countries: The Indian Experience
- T. G. Arun, J. Turner
- Economics
- 31 December 2002
This study is based on the premise that the success/failure of financial sector reforms depends heavily on country specific factors and makes an attempt to examine these factors in the Indian…
Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870
- G. Acheson, Charles R. Hickson, J. Turner, Qing Ye
- Economics, HistoryThe Journal of Economic History
- 1 December 2009
This article presents a new series of monthly equity returns for the British stock market for the period 1825-1870. In addition to calculating capital appreciation and dividend yields, the article…
Banking in Crisis: The Rise and Fall of British Banking Stability, 1800 to the Present
- J. Turner
- Economics, History
- 10 July 2014
Can the lessons of the past help us to prevent another banking collapse in the future? This is the first book to tell the story of the rise and fall of British banking stability over the past two…
Substitutes for Legal Protection: Corporate Governance and Dividends in Victorian Britain
- Gareth Campbell, J. Turner
- History, Economics
- 1 January 2011
Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the legal system. This…
The death blow to unlimited liability in Victorian Britain: The City of Glasgow failure
- G. Acheson, J. Turner
- History, Economics
- 1 July 2008
Corporate governance and development : reform, financial systems and legal frameworks
Contents: Preface 1. Corporate Governance and Development: Reform, Financial Systems and Legal Framework - An Overview Thankom Arun and John Turner 2. Gains and Losses of Adopting New Standards of…
Corporate Ownership and Control in Victorian Britain
- G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell, J. Turner, Nadia Vanteeva
- Economics, History
- 1 August 2015
Using ownership and control data for 890 firm-years, this paper examines the concentration of capital and voting rights in British companies in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that…
Happy hour followed by hangover: financing the UK brewery industry, 1880–1913
- G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle, J. Turner
- Economics, History
- 3 July 2016
ABSTRACT In the last 15 years of the nineteenth century c.300 British brewers incorporated and floated securities on the stock market. Subsequently, in the 1900s, the industry suffered a long-lived…
What Moved Share Prices in the Nineteenth‐Century London Stock Market?
- Gareth Campbell, William Quinn, J. Turner, Qing Ye
- Economics
- 1 February 2018
Using a new weekly blue-chip index, this paper investigates the causes of stock price movements on the London market between 1823 and 1870. We find that economic fundamentals explain about 15 per…
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