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A Social Network for Trade and Inventories of Stock during the South Sea Bubble

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  • Gary S. Shea

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A social network of stock trading is defined for the notorious South Sea Bubble of 1720. It is a flow network defined in terms of pass-through and core pass-through, which have convenient properties with respect to inventories. These are all useful concepts when examining a liquidity crisis, financial intermediation and the changing social structure of trade. We find that there may have been a liquidity crisis suffered by goldsmith bankers before the Bubble, a gradual path towards dis-intermediation after the Bubble and a switch from intermediation based upon brokerage to intermediation based upon dealership.

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Paper provided by Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis in its series CDMA Working Paper Series with number 1110.

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Date of creation: Jul 2011
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Handle: RePEc:san:cdmawp:1110

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Keywords: East India Company; South Sea Company; Bank of England; social networks; financial intermediation; inventories; liquidity.;

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  1. Andrew Mays & Gary S. Shea, 2011. " East India Company and Bank of England Shareholders during the South Sea Bubble: Partitions, Components and Connectivity in a Dynamic Trading Network," CDMA Working Paper Series 1109, Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis.
  2. Gary S. Shea, 2011. " (Re)financing the Slave Trade with the Royal African Company in the Boom Markets of 1720," CDMA Working Paper Series 1114, Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis.

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