Shareholder liability regimes in nineteenth-century English banking: The impact upon the market for shares

European Review of Economic History

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-125

  Hickson, Charles R ^a   Turner, John D ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0942279940     PISSN: 13614916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1361491603000042     Document Type: Article

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