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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of traffic congestion mitigation techniques using an entropy-TOPSIS integrated method. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hussain D, Jamal A, Farooq A, Almoshaogeh M, Alharbi F, Farooq D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
wiley   +1 more source

Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of ...
Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher, Richard S. Grossman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced vertical railway track quality index with dynamic responses from moving trains. [PDF]

Heliyon
Unsiwilai S, Phusakulkajorn W, Shen C, Zoeteman A, Dollevoet R, Núñez A, Li Z.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth‐century Switzerland

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30‐year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute this to two structural issues: banks had incentives to ward off competitors by protecting their local monopolies or forming cartels, and there was
Daniel Kaufmann, Rebecca Stuart
wiley   +1 more source

Behavior of turnout sleepers in a large-scale ballast box test. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Grohs G, Pircher P, Quirchmair M, Loy H, Six K, Pospischil F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The big impact of small change: Fresh estimates of English wheat market integration, 1693–1893

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using existing and new price data sets, we provide the first estimates of market integration across England over the entire 200 years of the industrial revolution. We document a significant, though not huge, integration improvement for markets furthest from London. Full integration was achieved by the 1830s. Our price data sets vary in quality
Liam Brunt, Edmund Cannon
wiley   +1 more source

Research Progress of Event Intelligent Perception Based on DAS. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Wu D, Liang QQ, Hu BX, Zhang ZT, Wang XF, Jiang JJ, Yi GW, Zeng HY, Hu JY, Yu Y, Zhang ZR.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source