When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century

Eric Hilt

NBER Working Paper No. 13093
Issued in May 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

I would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of Leah Boustan, Stanley Engerman, Carola Frydman, Zorina Khan, Naomi Lamoreaux, Petra Moser, Antoinette Schoar, and seminar participants at UCLA, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, UNC Chapel Hill, MIT Sloan, the NBER Summer Institute, the Economic History Association annual meetings, and the Cliometrics Society conference. Elira Kuka and Jaree Pinthong provided superb research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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