Go active or stay passive: Investment trust, financial innovation and diversification in Belgium's early days
In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 79, S. 101378
ISSN: 0014-4983
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In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 79, S. 101378
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 52, S. 22-43
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: Cliometrica: journal of historical economics and econometric history
ISSN: 1863-2513
In: European review of economic history: EREH, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 533-559
ISSN: 1474-0044
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We investigate the determinants of dividend payments in Belgium between 1838 and 2020. As the institutional environment changes drastically over time, we explore whether the determinants of dividend payments depend on the environment in which firms operate. Large firms, firms that are not informationally opaque, firms with a high share denomination and firms with liquid shares are more likely to pay. However, the importance of these characteristics changed over time. Surprisingly, firms seemingly do not use dividends for signaling. Our results indicate that the omnipresence of universal banks in pre-war Belgium might have lowered the need for a signal.
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In: European review of economic history: EREH, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 72-96
ISSN: 1474-0044
In: Cliometrica: journal of historical economics and econometric history, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 77-95
ISSN: 1863-2513
In: The Economic History Review
ISSN: 1468-0289
AbstractWe investigate corporate bond returns for the period 1838–1939 by compiling a unique new database of 201 000 monthly observations of bonds traded on the Brussels Stock Exchange. The value‐weighted annualized total rate of return, net of coupon defaults and taxes, is 4.35 per cent in nominal terms and 2.81 per cent in real terms. Estimates of average returns show that corporate bonds outperformed equities during the entire nineteenth century. We find that the risk‐adjusted performance of corporate bonds based on Sharpe ratios exceeds that of equities and sovereign bonds during the corporate bond market's first centennial.
In: Van Mencxel, K., Annaert, J., & Deloof, M. (2024). Bonds for the long run? The rate of return on corporate bonds in Belgium, 1838-1939. Forthcoming at The Economic History Review.
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In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 189-204
ISSN: 0014-4983
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In: Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 14/2001
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In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 253-265
ISSN: 0014-4983