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Title
Returns on foreign investment during the pre-1914 era : the case of Russia
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Abstract
Portfolio investors during 1880-1914 were motivated by the prospect of higher (ex-ante) expected returns and the search for diversification. At the London stock exchange, such overseas portfolios also realised higher (ex-post) returns than domestic portfolios. However, this result cannot be generalised. Higher return expectations for portfolio investments in stocks of companies investing in Russia (listed at the Brussels Stock Exchange) did not realise in the end, mainly due to the exceptional and unforeseeable economic, social, political and geo-political events during the period 1899-1907 and the outbreak of the First World Warthese risks being underestimated by investors.
Language
English
Source (journal)
European review of economic history. - Cambridge, 1996, currens
Publication
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019
ISSN
1361-4916 [print]
1474-0044 [online]
DOI
10.1093/EREH/HEY004
Volume/pages
23 :1 (2019) , p. 72-96
ISI
000462576200004
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Last edited 14.01.2025
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