Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108513 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 15-01
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
In the last 15 years of the nineteenth century c.300 British brewers incorporated and floated securities on the stock market. Subsequently, in the 1900s, the industry suffered a long-lived hangover. In this paper, we establish the stylised facts of this transformation and estimate the gains enjoyed by brewery investors during the boom as well as the losses suffered by investors during the bust of the 1900s. However, not all brewery equity shares suffered alike. We find that post-1900 performance correlates positively with capital-market discipline and good corporate governance and negatively with family control, but does not correlate with indebtedness.
JEL: 
N23
N43
N83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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