The Belle Epoque of International Finance. French Capital Exports, 1880-1914.
This paper introduces a new dataset of French investments in foreign securities. This is the most detailed data available to date. The data is used to study the composition, valuation, and total return of the French portfolio of non-sovereign foreign securities on the 34 years before World War 1....
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2011
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