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The Distribution of Corporate Ownership in the United States

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An important movement, in need of quantitative measurement, 16. — Federal income-tax returns indicate a wider distribution of dividend payments, 17. — Corroborative evidence furnished by a study of stock ownership in 281 corporations, 21. — An estimate of total capital stock of American corporations and of the number of domestic stockholders, 26. — Two periods of rapid diffusion, 29. — Stock ownership by employees, 32. — By customers, 32. — Labor banks, 33. — Tax-exempt securities, 35. — Effect of Liberty Bond campaigns, 35. — Increase of savings deposits, 36. — Effect of higher wages, 37. — Conclusion, 38.

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  • H. T. Warshow, 1924. "The Distribution of Corporate Ownership in the United States," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 39(1), pages 15-38.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:39:y:1924:i:1:p:15-38.
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    1. Mihir A. Desai & Dhammika Dharmapala & Winnie Fung, 2005. "Taxation and the Evolution of Aggregate Corporate Ownership Concentration," NBER Working Papers 11469, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Foreman-Peck, James & Hannah, Leslie, 2011. "Extreme Divorce: the Managerial Revolution in UK Companies before 1914," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2011/21, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section.
    3. Leslie Hannah, 2007. "The Divorce of Ownership from Control from 1900: Re-calibrating Imagined Global Historical Trends," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-460, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
    4. Dieckelmann, Daniel, 2021. "Market sentiment, financial fragility, and economic activity: The role of corporate securities issuance," Discussion Papers 2021/6, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
    5. Ajeyo Banerjee & E. Woodrow Eckard, 2001. "Why Regulate Insider Trading? Evidence from the First Great Merger Wave (1897-1903)," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 91(5), pages 1329-1349, December.
    6. Hilt, Eric & Jaremski, Matthew & Rahn, Wendy, 2022. "When Uncle Sam introduced Main Street to Wall Street: Liberty Bonds and the transformation of American finance," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(1), pages 194-216.

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