Australian Company Borrowing, 1870-1893. A study in British overseas investment

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  • Name International investment
  • Name Capital and money markets, etc
  • Name Investors & investor behaviour

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  • Australia

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Estimates the supply of capital from Britain to the Australian private sector, excluding mining, raised by finance companies via debenture issues / bank borrowings. Has sections: 'Flow of British capital to the Australian colonies'; 'The British capital market of the late nineteenth century'; 'The late nineteenth century investor'; 'The background to Australian borrowing in Scotland'; 'Institutional aspects of borrowing in Scotland'; 'The background to Australian economic development'; 'British capital and the Australian pastoral industry'; 'Estimates of the flow of British capital to the private sector of the Australian economy'; 'British capital, British deposits and the financial crisis of 1893'; 'The flow of British capital; to Australia. Finance companies and the pastoral industry'