Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/156135 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
eabh Papers No. 17-02
Publisher: 
The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In this paper, we use new historical data on the most popular stocks traded at the Istanbul bourse between 1910 and 1914, to examine the effect of wars on stock market prices. During this period, the Ottoman Empire was involved in the Turco-Italian and the Balkan wars, leading to massive land losses before the First World War. The data are manually collected from the available volumes of two daily Ottoman newspapers, Tercüman-ı Hakikat and Tanin. Our findings are quite surprising, as we observe only a temporary and small drop of prices, indicating little perceived risk by stock investors of the Istanbul bourse.
Subjects: 
the Istanbul stock exchange
stocks
the Turco-Italian war
the Balkan wars
structural breaks
JEL: 
G1
N25
N45
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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