Wel merkwaardig dat dit artikel in @standaard.be niet vermeldt dat Henri Le Boeuf de schoonzoon (en werknemer) van Albert Thys was, de drijvende kracht achter het grootste (en meest succesvolle) zakenimperium in de Congo Vrijstaat.

Absoluut Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul.

New publication with Luca Farè, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara, in which we investigate the relation between board size and IPO value before WW1 when investor protection was very weak. We find a substantial relation, especially for firms operating abroad. Open access. doi.org/10.1111/corg...

Artikel in Bank- en Financiewezen: financialforum.be/nl/bfw-digit...

Artikel in Bank- en Financiewezen: financialforum.be/nl/bfw-digit...

Waren onder­ne­min­gen in de Con­go-Vrij­staat een goe­de beleg­ging? Kort antwoord: de meeste waren rampzalige beleggingen, maar met een paar grote uitzonderingen.

Zie link naar artikel hieronder.

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Companies are buying Bitcoin to pump up their stock price & fend off short-sellers. “The strategy … relies on bitcoin retaining its value. If it crashes, executives admit the fallout could be destabilising.” No shit Sherlock.
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PowerPoint presentaties zijn het nieuwe mammoet schieten!

Thanks!

Do you have any recommendations of literature on this?

1898 issue of "Tramways Electriques de Gand" shares & bonds, one of the first electric tramways in Belgium. The original plan was to have trams with batteries because trams with overhead wires were considered too ugly by the city council, but the battery technology turned out not to be feasible.

“Polls have shown that principal investigator biologists now spend up to 40 percent of their time—it’s a shocking number, 40 percent of their time—writing grants.”

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Walking around Antwerp I came across the former HQ of insurance company Securitas, which was the very first limited liability company in Belgium.
Founded in 1819 when Belgium was part of The Netherlands. The current building dates from 1924. Now an apartment building.

Is de studie ergens beschikbaar?

Does government restricting the formation of limited liability companies because this company form was ‘unfair competition’ count?

V The Observer:
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo..
This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Hoe is dat berekend?

I made a "starter pack" for economic and financial historians! Let me know if I need to add someone to the list!

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More than 800 Belgian communities issued their own currency during WW1, “payable by the community after the war”, because the national bank was not allowed by the German occupiers to issue francs. (h/t Raphaël Melki)