With their legal personhood, permanent capital, transferable shares, separation of
ownership and management, and limited liability, the Dutch and English colonial trading …

We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in
response to the need to lock in long-term capital to profit from trade opportunities with Asia …

The debate over the institutions that link economic growth to public finance tends to
disregard the need for savings to finance growing public debt. In seventeenth-century …

Various well-known forms of safeguards for life-cycle risks have been described extensively
for the early modern era. In this paper I want to draw attention to one specific and often …

(VOC, 1602-1796), led to the development of modern capital financing. These studies,
however, lacked an in-depth analysis of the financial data produced by the VOC's …

This paper analyses an insurance contract of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde
Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) initiated in 1613. As this contract is an early example of risk …

Onderzoek aan de hand van collaterale successie (belasting op erfenissen niet in directe
lijn) naar investeringsgedrag van elite en middenklasse in Den Haag rond 1740. Deze …

With their legal personhood, permanent capital with transferable shares, separation of
ownership and management, and limited liability for both shareholders and managers, the …