%0 Journal Article
%T Portuguese public debt and financial business before WWI
%A Maria Eugenia Mata
%J Business and Economic Horizons
%D 2010
%I Prague Development Center
%X Government, public finance, and public debt framed the historical background for exceptional financial business opportunities for Henry Burnay as a private banker and a network with Baring Brothers, Comptoir National d'Escompte, Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, Neuflize et Cie., Cr¨¦dit Lyonnais, Soci¨¦t¨¦ G¨¦n¨¦rale, Deutsche Bank, Bank fur Handel& Industrie, Dresdner Bank, M. Jacob H. S. Stern and the Deutsche Effecten & Wechsel Bank from Frankfurt. Nineteenth-century financial markets and public debt emerge as the main players in the game.Credibility and honesty are important values for earning confidence and trust in international financial business, while bilateral-monopoly market situations required a lot of bargaining for joint profit maximization.
%K Financial business
%K nineteenth-century financial markets
%K public debt
%K bilateral monopoly
%K Government
%K tobacco and matches
%K bargaining
%K Portugal
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