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The world’s first stock exchange: how the Amsterdam market for Dutch East
India Company shares became a modern securities market, 1602-1700
Petram, L.O.
Publication date 2011
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Petram, L. O. (2011). The world’s first stock exchange: how the Amsterdam market for Dutch East India Company shares became a modern securities market, 1602-1700. Eigen Beheer.
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Acknowledgements
I have very much enjoyed working on this thesis and now it is a pleasure to thank a number of people who contributed to it. I am grateful to my supervisors, Leo Noorde-graaf and Clé Lesger, for giving me the freedom to pursue my own ideas. They asked the right questions at important stages during my research.
I am indebted to Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker for giving me the oppor-tunity to present work in progress at seminars of their research group at Utrecht Uni-versity, commenting on previous versions of some of the chapters of this thesis and inviting me to stay as a visiting scholar at Utrecht University in the fall of 2008. I wish to thank Wouter Ryckbosch for the very good company during that stay. Heleen Kole, member of the research group of Gelderblom and Jonker, pointed me towards the archives of the Court of Holland and also shared the data she collected for Oscar Gelderblom with me.
I have learned a lot from discussing early-modern financial history with Peter Koudijs and working together in the archives on joint research projects. Peter also read large part of an earlier version of my thesis, for which I want to express my grati-tude.
Cátia Antunes provided valuable assistance by deciphering and translating the letters of Manuel Levy Duarte. Thanks also to Kate Delaney who corrected the Eng-lish of this thesis.
Working on my thesis would not have been so enjoyable without all the PhD colleagues at the history department of the University of Amsterdam. Thanks to them for providing a great environment in which to work and have fun.
