The Development of Corporate Financial Markets in Britain and the United States, 1600–1914: Overcoming Asymmetric Information

Jonathan Barron Baskin

Business History Review, 1988, vol. 62, issue 2, 199-237

Abstract: In the following article, Professor Baskin traces the evolution of corporate finance from its beginnings among the British trading companies to its modern transformation in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. He argues that deductive theoretical analyses based on perfect capital markets cannot always explain actual historical developments, and that financial history generally has not received sufficient attention from either economic theorists or historians. Professor Baskin suggests that financial markets developed as they did largely as a result of efforts to minimize the problems created by the asymmetry of information between company insiders and potential investors.

Date: 1988
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