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Working Papers

2024

1. Three centuries of corporate governance in the UK
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History

2023

2. Aristocratic amateurs to fat cats? British CEOs in the twentieth century
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History

2022

3. The spectre of terrorism and the stock market
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
4. The wee divergence: Business creation and political turmoil in Ireland before 1900
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
5. Why did shareholder liability disappear?
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
   See also Journal Article Why did shareholder liability disappear?, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2024) View citations (2) (2024)

2021

6. Northern Ireland's Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues
   Insight Papers, The Productivity Institute View citations (3)
7. Riding the Bubble or Taken for a Ride? Investors in the British Bicycle Mania
   QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School
   Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2021)
8. The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (4)
   Also in National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Discussion Papers, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2017) View citations (4)
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History (2017) View citations (4)
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2017) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2021) View citations (4) (2021)

2020

9. Bubbles in history
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Bubbles in history, Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2023) (2023)
10. Capital Market Development Over the Long Run: The Portfolios of UK Life Assurers Over Two Centuries
    QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2020)
    See also Journal Article Capital market development over the long run: the portfolios of UK life assurers over two centuries, European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society (2022) View citations (3) (2022)
11. Independent Women: Investing in British Railways, 1870-1922
    QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School
    See also Journal Article Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (2021) View citations (4) (2021)

2019

12. Before the Cult of Equity: New Monthly Indices of the British Share Market, 1829-1929
    QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School
    Also in Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics (2019) View citations (1)
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2019) View citations (4)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2019) View citations (2)
13. Law and Finance in Britain c.1900
    QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School View citations (1)
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2019) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Law and finance in Britain c.1900, Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
14. Private Contracting, Law and Finance
    QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Private Contracting, Law and Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies (2019) View citations (9) (2019)

2018

15. Independent women: Shareholders in the age of the suffragettes
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
16. Prices and informed trading: Evidence from an early stock market
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
17. Share trading activity and the rise of the rentier in the UK before 1920
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
    See also Journal Article Share trading activity and the rise of the rentier in the UK before 1920*, Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2020) (2020)
18. The Origins of the (Cooperative) Species: Raiffeisen Banking in the Netherlands, 1898–1909
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) View citations (3)
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2018) View citations (3)
19. Wildcat Bankers or Political Failure? The Irish Financial Pantomime, 1797-1826
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2018)
    See also Journal Article Wildcat bankers or political failure? The Irish financial pantomime, 1797–1826, European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society (2020) (2020)

2017

20. News media and investor sentiment over the long run
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
21. The development of English company law before 1900
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)

2016

22. Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (5)
    Also in eabh Papers, The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) (2016) View citations (5)
23. Media coverage and stock returns on the London Stock Exchange, 1825-70
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Media Coverage and Stock Returns on the London Stock Exchange, 1825–70, Review of Finance, European Finance Association (2018) View citations (11) (2018)
24. The rise and decline of the UK's provincial stock markets, 1869-1929
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)

2015

25. Happy hour followed by hangover: Financing the UK brewery industry, 1880-1913
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Happy hour followed by hangover: financing the UK brewery industry, 1880–1913, Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2016) View citations (6) (2016)
26. Rentier capitalism and the equity market: shareholders in Victorian public companies
    Working Papers, Economic History Society
27. What moved share prices in the nineteenth-century London stock market?
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (6)
28. Who financed the expansion of the equity market? Shareholder clienteles in Victorian Britain
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
    See also Journal Article Who financed the expansion of the equity market? Shareholder clienteles in Victorian Britain, Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2017) View citations (12) (2017)

2014

29. Corporate Ownership and Control in Victorian Britain
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (5)
    Also in eabh Papers, The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) (2014) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (2015) View citations (28) (2015)
30. Financial history and financial economics
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
31. The cross-section of stock returns in an early stock market
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article The cross-section of stock returns in an early stock market, International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier (2014) View citations (7) (2014)

2010

32. ‘The Greatest Bubble in History’: Stock Prices during the British Railway Mania
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)

2008

33. Rule Britannia!: British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870
    Working Papers, Economic History Society View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2009) View citations (40) (2009)

2003

34. Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues
    Development Economics and Public Policy Working Papers, University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) View citations (4)
    See also Chapter Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues, Chapters, Edward Elgar Publishing (2009) View citations (2) (2009)
    Journal Article Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: concepts and issues, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Wiley Blackwell (2004) View citations (30) (2004)

2002

35. The trading of unlimited liability bank shares: the Bagehot Hypothesis
    Working Papers, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge View citations (1)

Undated

36. Do Managers Matter? Management Practices in post-COVID Northern Ireland
    Working Papers, The Productivity Institute

Journal Articles

2024

1. British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats?
   Business History Review, 2024, 98, (2), 359-387
2. Why did shareholder liability disappear?
   Journal of Financial Economics, 2024, 152, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Why did shareholder liability disappear?, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2022) (2022)

2023

3. Bubbles in history
   Business History, 2023, 65, (4), 636-655
   See also Working Paper Bubbles in history, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2020) View citations (4) (2020)
4. Introduction to the symposium on banking and currency
   Economic History Review, 2023, 76, (2), 413-414
5. Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain
   The Journal of Economic History, 2023, 83, (1), 131-165 View citations (1)

2022

6. Business Creation and Political Turmoil: Ireland versus Scotland before 1900
   Business History Review, 2022, 96, (4), 709-739
7. Capital market development over the long run: the portfolios of UK life assurers over two centuries
   (Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain)
   European Review of Economic History, 2022, 26, (3), 370-398 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Capital Market Development Over the Long Run: The Portfolios of UK Life Assurers Over Two Centuries, QBS Working Paper Series (2020) (2020)

2021

8. Before the cult of equity: the British stock market, 1829–1929
   (Rule Britannia! British stock market returns, 1825–1870)
   European Review of Economic History, 2021, 25, (4), 645-679 View citations (3)
9. Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922
   Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (2), 471-495 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Independent Women: Investing in British Railways, 1870-1922, QBS Working Paper Series (2020) (2020)
10. Introduction to the symposium on money
    Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (4), 871-872
11. The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938
    Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 79, (C) View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2021) View citations (4) (2021)

2020

12. From Complementary to Competitive: The London and U.K. Provincial Stock Markets
    The Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80, (2), 501-530 View citations (4)
13. News media and investor sentiment during bull and bear markets
    The European Journal of Finance, 2020, 26, (14), 1377-1395 View citations (17)
14. Share trading activity and the rise of the rentier in the UK before 1920*
    Business History, 2020, 62, (6), 982-1001
    See also Working Paper Share trading activity and the rise of the rentier in the UK before 1920, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2018) (2018)
15. The origins of the (cooperative) species: Raiffeisen banking in the Netherlands, 1898–19091
    European Review of Economic History, 2020, 24, (4), 749-782 View citations (1)
16. Wildcat bankers or political failure? The Irish financial pantomime, 1797–1826
    European Review of Economic History, 2020, 24, (3), 522-577
    See also Working Paper Wildcat Bankers or Political Failure? The Irish Financial Pantomime, 1797-1826, Lund Papers in Economic History (2018) (2018)

2019

17. Law and finance in Britain c.1900
    Financial History Review, 2019, 26, (3), 267-293 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Law and Finance in Britain c.1900, QBS Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
18. Private Contracting, Law and Finance
    The Review of Financial Studies, 2019, 32, (11), 4156-4195 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Private Contracting, Law and Finance, QBS Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (5) (2019)

2018

19. Media Coverage and Stock Returns on the London Stock Exchange, 1825–70
    Review of Finance, 2018, 22, (4), 1605-1629 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Media coverage and stock returns on the London Stock Exchange, 1825-70, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2016) View citations (2) (2016)
20. The liquidity of the London capital markets, 1825–70†
    Economic History Review, 2018, 71, (3), 823-852 View citations (4)
21. What moved share prices in the nineteenth†century London stock market?
    Economic History Review, 2018, 71, (1), 157-189 View citations (6)

2017

22. Who financed the expansion of the equity market? Shareholder clienteles in Victorian Britain
    Business History, 2017, 59, (4), 607-637 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper Who financed the expansion of the equity market? Shareholder clienteles in Victorian Britain, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2015) (2015)

2016

23. Corporate Ownership, Control, and Firm Performance in Victorian Britain
    The Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76, (1), 1-40 View citations (7)
24. Happy hour followed by hangover: financing the UK brewery industry, 1880–1913
    Business History, 2016, 58, (5), 725-751 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Happy hour followed by hangover: Financing the UK brewery industry, 1880-1913, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2015) View citations (1) (2015)
25. This time is different: Causes and consequences of British banking instability over the long run
    Journal of Financial Stability, 2016, 27, (C), 74-94 View citations (5)
26. William N. Goetzmann, Money changes everything: how finance made civilization possible ( Princeton, NJ, and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 584. 60 figs. ISBN 9780691143781 Hbk. $35/£24.95)
    Economic History Review, 2016, 69, (4), 1400-1401

2015

27. Active Controllers or Wealthy Rentiers? Large Shareholders in Victorian Public Companies
    Business History Review, 2015, 89, (4), 661-691 View citations (2)
28. Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain
    Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (3), 911-936 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper Corporate Ownership and Control in Victorian Britain, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (5) (2014)
29. Managerial failure in mid-Victorian Britain?: Corporate expansion during a promotion boom
    Business History, 2015, 57, (8), 1248-1276 View citations (5)
30. Walter A. Friedman, Fortune tellers. The story of America's first economic forecasters ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 273. ISBN 9780691159119 Hbk. £19.95)
    Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (1), 383-384

2014

31. James Taylor, Boardroom scandal: the criminalization of company fraud in nineteenth-century Britain ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 300. 10 illus. ISBN 9780199695799 Hbk. £60)
    Economic History Review, 2014, 67, (2), 586-587
32. The cross-section of stock returns in an early stock market
    International Review of Financial Analysis, 2014, 34, (C), 114-123 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper The cross-section of stock returns in an early stock market, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (8) (2014)

2013

33. Does the law and finance hypothesis pass the test of history?
    Business History, 2013, 55, (4), 524-542 View citations (26)
34. Law, Politics, and Financial Development: The Great Reversal of the U.K. Corporate Debt Market
    The Journal of Economic History, 2013, 73, (3), 810-846 View citations (17)
35. Why Do Firms Pay Dividends?: Evidence from an Early and Unregulated Capital Market
    Review of Finance, 2013, 17, (5), 1787-1826 View citations (24)

2012

36. Crossing the River by Touching Stones?: The Reform of Corporate Ownership in China
    Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 2012, 19, (3), 233-258 View citations (1)
37. Dispelling the Myth of the Naive Investor during the British Railway Mania, 1845–1846
    Business History Review, 2012, 86, (1), 3-41 View citations (13)
38. Property rights and competing for the affections of Demos: the impact of the 1867 Reform Act on stock prices
    Public Choice, 2012, 150, (3), 609-631 View citations (16)
39. The character and denomination of shares in the Victorian equity market
    Economic History Review, 2012, 65, (3), 862-886 View citations (25)
40. The role of the media in a bubble
    Explorations in Economic History, 2012, 49, (4), 461-481 View citations (11)

2011

41. Investor behaviour in a nascent capital market: Scottish bank shareholders in the nineteenth century
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (1), 188-213 View citations (15)
42. Organisational flexibility and governance in a civil-law regime: Scottish partnership banks during the Industrial Revolution
    Business History, 2011, 53, (4), 505-529 View citations (3)
43. Substitutes for legal protection: corporate governance and dividends in Victorian Britain
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (2), 571-597 View citations (54)
44. The rate of return on equity across industrial sectors on the British stock market, 1825–70
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (4), 1218-1241 View citations (7)
45. The world of private banking – By Youssef Cassis and Philip L. Cottrell, with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (1), 321-323

2010

46. Does Limited Liability Matter? Evidence From Nineteenth-Century British Banking
    Review of Law & Economics, 2010, 6, (2), 247-273 View citations (15)
47. Wealth concentration in the European periphery: Ireland, 1858--2001
    Oxford Economic Papers, 2010, 62, (4), 625-646 View citations (7)

2009

48. Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870
    The Journal of Economic History, 2009, 69, (4), 1107-1137 View citations (40)
    See also Working Paper Rule Britannia!: British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870, Working Papers (2008) View citations (1) (2008)
49. Wider share ownership?: investors in English and Welsh Bank shares in the nineteenth century1
    Economic History Review, 2009, 62, (s1), 167-192 View citations (10)
50. ‘The last acre and sixpence’: views on bank liability regimes in nineteenth-century Britain
    Financial History Review, 2009, 16, (2), 111-127 View citations (8)

2008

51. Pre- and post-famine indices of Irish equity prices
    European Review of Economic History, 2008, 12, (1), 3-38 View citations (6)
52. The death blow to unlimited liability in Victorian Britain: The City of Glasgow failure
    Explorations in Economic History, 2008, 45, (3), 235-253 View citations (21)
53. The secondary market for bank shares in nineteenth-century Britain
    Financial History Review, 2008, 15, (2), 123-151 View citations (10)

2006

54. The impact of limited liability on ownership and control: Irish banking, 1877–19141
    Economic History Review, 2006, 59, (2), 320-346 View citations (12)

2005

55. Much ado about nothing: the limitation of liability and the market for 19th century Irish bank stock
    Explorations in Economic History, 2005, 42, (3), 459-476 View citations (11)
56. The Genesis of Corporate Governance: Nineteenth-Century Irish Joint-Stock Banks
    Business History, 2005, 47, (2), 174-189 View citations (10)
57. The rise and decline of the Irish stock market, 1865–1913
    European Review of Economic History, 2005, 9, (1), 3-33 View citations (1)

2004

58. Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: concepts and issues
    Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2004, 12, (3), 371-377 View citations (30)
    See also Working Paper Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues, Development Economics and Public Policy Working Papers (2003) View citations (4) (2003)
    Chapter Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues, Chapters, 2009 (2009) View citations (2) (2009)
59. Free banking and the stability of early joint-stock banking
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2004, 28, (6), 903-919 View citations (12)

2003

60. Financial Sector Reforms and Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: The Indian Experience
    South Asia Economic Journal, 2003, 4, (2), 187-204
61. Shareholder liability regimes in nineteenth-century English banking: The impact upon the market for shares
    European Review of Economic History, 2003, 7, (1), 99-125 View citations (15)
62. The Trading of Unlimited Liability Bank Shares in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Bagehot Hypothesis
    The Journal of Economic History, 2003, 63, (4), 931-958 View citations (12)

2002

63. Financial Sector Reforms in Developing Countries: The Indian Experience
    The World Economy, 2002, 25, (3), 429-445 View citations (13)

2000

64. The Hayekian Approach to Banking Supervision in New Zealand
    Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2000, 71, (1), 105-125 View citations (1)

1999

65. New Zealand's approach to bank supervision
    Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 1999, 7, (3), 250-255

Books

2021

1. Boom and Bust
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2020) View citations (10)

2014

2. Banking in Crisis
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (39)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2014) View citations (39)

Edited books

2009

1. Corporate Governance and Development
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (3)

Chapters

2018

1. Money and Central Banking
   Palgrave Macmillan

2009

2. Corporate Governance and Development: Reform, Financial Systems and Legal Framework – An Overview
   Chapter 1 in Corporate Governance and Development, 2009 View citations (1)
3. Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues
   Chapter 7 in Corporate Governance and Development, 2009 View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: concepts and issues, Wiley Blackwell (2004) View citations (30) (2004)
   Working Paper Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues, University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) (2003) View citations (4) (2003)