Quis custodiet quem? Sovereign Debt and Bondholders' Protection Before 1914.

The half-century before World War I has been characterized as the ¯rst age of ¯nancial glob- alization. This paper focuses on the role and signi¯cance of the bondholders' organizations for the governance of this market. I argue that the outcome of these institutions depended on two dimensions:...

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Main Author: Esteves, R
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2007