Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: (Japan-Us Center Ufj Bank Monographs on International Financi)

Series: Japan-Us Center Ufj Bank Monographs on International Financi

This study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries--Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States--over the years 1865 to 1914. In substantive chapters on each of the countries it offers parallel histories of the evolution of their financial infrastructures--commercial banks, nonbank intermediaries, primary security markets, formal s