The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets

by Elliot Posner

Between 1995 and 2007, financial elites in more than a dozen western European countries engaged in a cross-border battle to create some twenty new stock markets, many of which were explicitly modeled on the American Nasdaq.

The resulting high-risk, high-reward markets facilitated wealth creation, rewarded venture capitalists, and drew major U.S. financial players to Europe. But they also chipped away at the European social compacts between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674031717
• ISBN13: 9780674031715
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"