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The organization of merchant empires.

Rei, Claudia.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The organization of merchant empires./
Author:	Rei, Claudia.
Description:	116 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3260.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3323148
ISBN:	9780549749066

The organization of merchant empires.
Rei, Claudia.

The organization of merchant empires. - 116 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3260.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2009.

The three chapters of this dissertation address the economics of merchant empires from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, when several European countries engaged in long-distance trade with the Far East. Despite sharing the same objectives and having access to the same technology, monarchs organized trade differently: the Portuguese opted for a crown monopoly whereas the English and the Dutch franchised monopoly rights to private agents. Long run performance differed radically across countries choosing the different options, which suggests a major impact of the choice of organization.

ISBN: 9780549749066Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

The organization of merchant empires.
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520 $a The first chapter explains organizational variation in terms of the differences in relative endowments of king and merchants. In Portugal, the king was wealthy enough to fund long-distance trade on his own; his strong bargaining power led to an organization affording him considerable control rights. In England, by contrast, the queen lacked the personal capital to establish an overseas empire and delegated control to the well endowed merchants of the East India Company.
520 $a In the second chapter I explore the implications of control allocation on the structure of labor compensation of merchant empires. I provide a model that explains the differences in labor compensation packages with different information structures across organizations: poor monitoring lowers the probability of catching a shirking worker and therefore labor contracts offer higher bonuses relative to wages. I test the predictions of the model using archival data for the Portuguese and Dutch workers overseas and find that the bonus-wage ratios are significantly higher for Portuguese workers.
520 $a The third and last chapter of the dissertation focuses on the implications of organization on the race for economic leadership across merchant empires. Poor organizational choices reduce incentives to invest, which in turn stifle technological improvements and make the corresponding empires lag behind upcoming leaders. Using historical evidence on transportation technology, I show that this may have been a factor behind the loss of leadership of the Portuguese merchant empire in the late sixteenth century.
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