Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914

by Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, Robert E Gallman

Book Overview

This study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries--Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States--over the years 1865 to 1914. In substantive chapters on each of the countries it offers parallel histories of the evolution of their financial infrastructures--commercial banks, nonbank intermediaries, primary security markets, formal secondary security markets, and the institutions that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052116608X
• ISBN13: 9780521166089
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 996 Pages
• Weight: 3.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"