Historical Patterns of Corporate Control in the United States

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Historical Patterns of Corporate Control in the United States

Stylized Facts About U.S. Corporate Control Today

1. American Exceptionalism?

2. Railroads

3. How Healthy Was J.P. Morgan in the 1920s?

4. Why No Pyramids?

5. Family Portfolios: Control and Diversification

6. “Retail Push” and Corporate Control

7. Sheer Size Means Large Families Get Lost in the Noise?

8. Continental Market Made Firms too Large?

9. Britain and the U.S.

10. Are We Looking in the Wrong Place?

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by Marco Becht and J. Bradford DeLong, for the NBER Corporate History Project Pre-Conference, Randall Morck, Chair, held in Cambridge, MA on October 5, 2002

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