Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175421 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 2018-04
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
Using a hand-collected dataset, we examine share trading activity over the period 1882 to 1920 for the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, one of the largest UK companies of the time. Our main finding is that the steady flow of rentiers into the shareholding constituency of this company stymied share trading activity. Another important finding is that share trading still occurred during the closure of the Stock Exchange in 1914, but on a much-reduced scale. We also find that there was a substantial boom in share trading and in insurance stock prices after World War I.
Subjects: 
Share trading
London Stock Exchange
Insurance
Investor
Rentier
World War I
JEL: 
G12
N23
N24
N83
N84
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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