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Marc Flandreau
Researcher at Economic Policy Institute
Publications - 170
Citations - 3859
Marc Flandreau is an academic researcher from Economic Policy Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Market liquidity & Debt. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 167 publications receiving 3713 citations. Previous affiliations of Marc Flandreau include Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies & Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Collective Action Clauses before they had airplanes: Bondholder committees and the London Stock Exchange in the 19th Century (1827-1868)
TL;DR: This article unpacked the operation of foreign debt bondholder committees before the creation of the British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders (CFB) in 1868 and argued that many ideas about this period need to be revisited.
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Global Financial Brands and the Underwriting of Foreign Government Debt since 1815
TL;DR: The authors discusses the role of financial intermediaries as underwriters and distributors of securities, providers of information, and lending of last resort services since the early nineteenth century, and the evolution of this role.
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Bondholders vs. bond-sellers? Investment banks and conditionality lending in the London market for foreign government debt, 1815-1913
Marc Flandreau,Juan H. Flores +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the ownership of reputation signals by prestigious banks rendered them able and willing to monitor government borrowing, which was a source of rent, and it led bankers to support countries facing liquidity crises in a manner similar to modern descriptions of relationship lending to corporate clients by parent banks.
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Home Biases, 19th Century Style
TL;DR: The authors argue that the greater facility with which capital migrated in the 19th century has much to do with the fact that colonies were more akin to the'regions' of modern countries.
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Les règles de la pratique. La Banque de France, le marché des métaux précieux et la naissance de l'étalon-or, 1848-1876
TL;DR: The authors propose quelques elements de reponse au travers de l'etude des interactions entre la Banque de France and le marche du metal precieux, and de leurs transformations entre 1848 and 1876.