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In 1730, Japanese merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the trade of... View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Price; Food; Business History; Market Transactions; Business and Government Relations; Japan

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01 Jun 2012
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A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations

A current exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center spotlights a fascinating period in the ongoing story of US–China trade relations. Drawing on wonderfully descriptive letters and diaries as well as hundreds of company documents... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

March 2023
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Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade Teaching Note Courseware

By: Luis M. Viceira and Emil N. Siriwardane

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October 1995
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New Trading Practices and Short-Run Market Efficiency

By: Kenneth A. Froot and André Perold

Keywords: Institutional Investing; Market Efficiency; Behavioral Finance; Equities; Stock Market; Indexing; Financial Markets; Asset Pricing

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May 2005
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Labor Law: The New Tools of Trade

Keywords: Labor; Law

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The NYSE Trading Floor and Spatial Dependence in Stock Returns

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is organized by physical posts. Each post has at most thirty panels, and each panel tracks up to thirty stocks. I demonstrate that there is spatial dependence in return correlations. Specifically, returns for... View Details

November 1973
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Note on the Japanese Trading Co.

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Keywords: Trade; Japan

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Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam

By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo

This study examines the spatial distribution of Muslim societies shedding light on its geographic origins. The empirical analysis conducted across countries, virtual countries, and ethnicities establishes that geographic inequality and proximity to pre-Islamic trade... View Details

Keywords: Geography; Religion; Trade

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Trade Catalog Collection | Baker Library

Trade Catalog Collection Columbia bicycles / Pope Manufacturing Company. Boston, Mass.: Pope Manufacturing Co., 1895. Special Collections & Archives has a rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs... View Details