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Did profitable slave trading enable the expansion of empire?: The Asiento de Negros, the South Sea Company and the financial revolution in Great Britain

机译:有利可图的奴隶交易使帝国的扩展能够扩展吗?:Asiento de Negros,南海公司和英国的金融革命

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In 1711, British Parliament chartered the South Sea Company, a public-private corporation chartered to reduce the cost of government borrowing by swapping illiquid short-term government debt for tradeable shares of the South Sea Co. To attract subscribers, the government also awarded the South Sea Co. an international monopoly in the trade of African slaves to Spanish America-the Asiento de Negros. This paper considers the extent to which Asiento-related slave trading was profitable for South Sea Co. shareholders and beneficial to the British financial revolution between 1713 and 1743. First, we use historical financial data to estimate the parameters of a capital asset pricing model of excess returns for South Sea Co. shareholders. We find that the Asiento contract increased risk-adjusted excess returns on South Sea Co. stock between 18 and 24% per year. Second, we estimate profit margins in the South Sea Co. Asiento slave trade. These show a stark positive correlation with company share prices before and after the South Sea Bubble of 1720. Adding slave ship departures to the CAPM specifications confirms the direct contribution of slave trading to shareholder returns. We also find that the Asiento and Asiento-related slave trading increased central government fiscal surplus by 16%. This suggests that profitable slave trading by the South Sea Co. under the Asiento enhanced Great Britian's fiscal capacity, which could be utilized to enhance a military capacity necessary for securing an empire.
机译:1711年,英国议会特许南海公司,一家公共私营企业公司通过交换南海公司可交换股票的非替代股票来降低政府借贷的成本,以吸引用户,政府还授予南海有限公司在非洲奴隶贸易到西班牙美国 - Asiento de Negros的国际垄断。本文考虑了与南海公司股东有利可图的Asiento相关奴隶交易的程度,并对1713年至1743年至17133年至1743年之间的英国金融革命有益。首先,我们使用历史财务数据来估计资本资产定价模型的参数来估算南海有限公司股东超额回报。我们发现ASIENTO合同每年南海有限公司的南海有限公司的风险调整后的超额回报增加18至24%。其次,我们估算南海有限公司奴隶贸易的利润率。这些展示了南海泡沫到1720年前和之后的公司股价与公司股价的显着正相关。添加奴隶船舶出发到CAPM规范证实了奴隶交易对股东回报的直接贡献。我们还发现Asiento和Asiento相关的奴隶交易将中央政府财政盈余增加16%。这表明南海公司的盈利奴隶交易在Asiento下加强了英国英国的财政能力,可以利用来提高确保帝国所需的军事能力。

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