Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141821 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 2016-03
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
The London Stock Exchange was the largest capital market in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, but Britain also had numerous other stock markets based in provincial cities and towns. This paper provides the first in-depth quantitative assessment of these markets. We find that they were an important source of financing for regional companies up until circa 1900 and our evidence suggests that their post-1900 decline was largely due to the changing characteristics of publicly-listed firms. We also find that the provincial and London markets became increasingly integrated over time.
Subjects: 
capital market
provincial stock exchanges
integration
cross listing
JEL: 
G10
N23
N24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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