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Investment Portfolios of 3 Belgian Banks (1851-1913)
No full text1 data and documentation file (embargoed until 2028-01)This dataset contains the investment portfolios of three Belgian banks during the long nineteenth century. This data has been retrieved from the annexes of the banks' annual reports to the shareholders. This dataset contains the investment portfolios of the following banks: Banque de Belgique (1851-1876), Banque de Bruxelles (1876-1913), Banque d'Outremer (1902-1913)
Newly established limited liability companies in Belgium on quinquennial basis and their relations to Belgian stock markets (1835-1910)
No full text1 data and documentation file (embargoed until 2028-01)This dataset contains all newly established limited liability companies in Belgium on a quinquennial basis during the long nineteenth century. The names of the companies were digitalised by the SCOB centre of the University of Antwerp. This dataset presents additional data per company of starter's capital, sector, and country of activity. This data was retrieved from Louis Frère's list in "Étude Historique des Société Anonymes Belges" (2 volumes). Year of IPO on Belgian stock markets per company was retrieved from the SCOB database
Balance Sheets of 14 Banks in Belgium (1835-1914) dataset
No full text1 data and documentation file (embargoed until 2028-01)This dataset contains the balance sheets and accounts of profits and losses of fourteen Belgian banks during the long nineteenth century. The data was retrieved from their annual reports to the shareholders. It presents annual data of bookkeeping for the following Belgian banks: the Société Générale (1848-1912) Banque de Bruxelles (1872-1913), Banque de Belgique (1851-1876), Banque d'Anvers (1870-1914), Banque Centrale de la Sambre (1872-1914), and the Banque d'Outremer (1900-1912). For eight banks, this datasets presents bookkeeping data on a quinquennial basis: Banque du Hainaut (1875-1914), Banque de Verviers (1875-1914), Banque de Flandre (1850-1914), Banque de Courtrai (1875-1914), Banque Centrale de Namur (1875-1914), Banque Centrale de la Dyle (1875-1914), Banque de Flandre Occidentale (1885-1914), and Banque de Gand (1885-1914)
Newly Established Joint-Stock Companies in Belgium on Quinquennial Basis and Their Relations to Belgian Stock Markets (1835-1910) dataset
No full text1 data and documentation fileThis dataset contains all newly established joint-stock companies in Belgium on a quinquennial basis during the long nineteenth century. The names of the companies were digitalised by the SCOB centre of the University of Antwerp. This dataset presents additional data per company of starter's capital, sector, and country of activity. This data was retrieved from Louis Frère's list in Étude Historique des Sociétés Anonymes Belges (2 volumes). Year of IPO on Belgian stock markets per company was retrieved from the SCOB database
Belgian capitalism and the finance-industry nexus during the first global economy (1850-1914)
No full textDefence date: 18 December 2025Examining Board: Prof. Glenda Sluga (European University Institute, Supervisor); Prof. Alexia Yates (European University Institute); Prof. Daniela Gabor (School of Oriental and African Studies); Prof. Oscar Gelderblom (University of Antwerp)This thesis explores the trajectory of Belgian capitalism and its finance-industry nexus during the first global economy (1850-1914). I trace a shift in finance’s services from financing through shares and bonds during the early industrialisation period (1830-1870) to financing through short-term credit via current accounts (1870-1914). I use Belgian banks’ balance sheets, investment portfolios, stock market data, and sources on current accounts to map this shift in ties between domestic finance and industry. I contextualise these shifts in the Belgian finance-industry nexus within the development of the first global economy. I argue that globalisation created a new terrain of action for both industry and finance, which altered their entanglement. In doing so, I bring a new perspective to an often-invoked idea in Belgian historiography, which I label the notion of a persistently strong finance-industry nexus. This notion posits that the relationship between domestic finance and industry did not fundamentally change during the first global economy. In this thesis, I reexamine this idea through the lens of globalisation. The globalisation of Belgian capitalism is further explored in a comparative framework with Britain and Germany, providing an instructive view onto the particular trajectory of Belgian finance and industry. I study the financial and industrial development of the three countries by comparing industrial growth and trade patterns, the relative importance of capital export, and its destinations. This approach locates Belgian industrial and financial growth between two different trajectories: Britain’s role as the global market’s central financier, and Germany’s experience as an industrialising ‘catch-up’ nation. I depict Belgian finance as growing mostly through increasing global entanglements, while domestic industry specialised in response to the competitive pressures of globalisation. Finally, I zoom in to examine diversification internal to the Belgian case-study through a regional comparison of the different trajectories of finance in merchant Antwerp and industrial Brussels over this same period. Additionally, I explore the changing role of finance in its relationship to the (colonial) state. These complementary analyses illuminate important differences in the ties of finance to their (local) clients, concluding that finance’s trajectory depends largely on the needs of its clients
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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