The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries: A History of the Italian Stock Market

Preface I
Preface II
Acknowledgements
Introduction
References
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Rome and the Papal State: Old Customs and the New Kingdom of Italy
	1.1 Restoration, Change, Innovation and Tradition
	1.2 The Slow Process of “Italianization”
		1.2.1 Rome and United Italy
	1.3 Territorial and Demographic Structure of the State
	1.4 Economic Conditions
	References
2 Finance and Banking
	2.1 Institutions and Financial Market
	2.2 Rome: From the Capital of “State of Lazio” to the Capital of Italy
	2.3 The Economy Outside the Borders of the Ecclesiastical State
	References
3 Structural Elements of the Rome Stock Exchange: Regulations, Price Lists and Intermediaries
	3.1 Origin and Development of the Stock Exchange
	3.2 The Figure of Brokers and Stockbrokers in the Roman Market
	3.3 “For the Good Performance and Prosperity of Trade”: The Rome Chamber of Commerce
	3.4 Historical Evolution of the Rome Stock Exchange: From Its Origin to the 1860s
		3.4.1 The Notification of 1836
		3.4.2 The Regulations of 1848 and 1854
	References
4 The Rome Stock Exchange and the Evolution of the Roman Financial Market (1821–1870)
	4.1 The Period 1821–1847
		4.1.1 The Securities Market
		4.1.2 The Subscribers
		4.1.3 The Real Value of the Securities
	4.2 The Period 1847–1860
		4.2.1 The Stock Trend
	4.3 The Period 1860–1870
		4.3.1 Stock Exchange Lists: 1860–1870
	References
5 The Stock Exchange and the Roman Financial Market from the Annexation of Italy to the Great War (1870–1914)
	5.1 The Age of the First Globalization
	5.2 The Quotations of 1870–1880
	5.3 The Quotations of 1880–1890
	5.4 The Quotations of 1890–1900
	5.5 Prices and the Period 1900–1910
	5.6 The Period 1911–1920
		5.6.1 Financing the First World War
		5.6.2 The Italian Annuity on the Main Foreign Stock Exchanges
		5.6.3 A Technical Analysis of the Variations in the Title of the Italian Annuity
		5.6.4 Role of Mixed Banks in the Rome Stock Exchange
		5.6.5 First Attempts to Regulate Bank–Business Relationships and the Evolution of Securities Listed on the Rome Stock Exchange Based on an Analysis of the War Period
		5.6.6 The Italian Commercial Bank and the Mediterranean Company
	5.7 The Differences in Absolute and Percentage Terms Between the Rome Stock Exchange and the Milan Stock Exchange in the Period 1911–1920
	References
6 The 1920s and the Great Depression
	6.1 The Rise of Fascism and the 1929 Crisis: The Stock Market in Italy
	6.2 An Analysis of Securities and Prices on the Rome Stock Exchange (1921–1930)
	6.3 Annual and Quarterly Trends of Securities on the Rome Stock Exchange (1921–1922; 1928–1930)
		6.3.1 Corporate Securities
	6.4 Bank Securities
	6.5 Government Bonds: The Annuity and the Consolidated (la rendita e il Consolidato)
	References
Conclusion
References
Index