Early Stock Exchanges
An organized securities market for transferable company shares, anchored by Amsterdam trading in Dutch East India Company shares from 1602 onward.
Core metadata
- ID: stock_exchange_early
- Era: Renaissance
- First known date: 1602 (exact)
- Region: Amsterdam, Dutch Republic / VOC share market
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
- Banking (banking)
- Ancient Written Law Codes (codified_law)
- Joint-Stock Companies (joint_stock_companies)
- Printing Press (printing_press)
Dependents
Fields
Field lanes
- Finance & Markets: Markets & Commerce
Node sources
- The World's First Stock Exchange: Amsterdam VOC Shares, 1602-1700 (University of Amsterdam, 2011, review) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 4
- Average edge confidence: 76%
- Prerequisite sources: 4
- expert_inference: 1
- review: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
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| Banking (banking) | common_dependency | 72% | expert_inference | Securities trading grew out of merchant finance and settlement practices, but a bank is not a literal component of an exchange. |
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| Joint-Stock Companies (joint_stock_companies) | required | 90% | review | The Amsterdam market depended on transferable VOC share capital issued in 1602. |
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| Printing Press (printing_press) | accelerates | 62% | review | Printed broker forms and later printed stock-price lists helped publish market information, but printing was not a hard prerequisite for the 1602 Amsterdam VOC share market. |
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| Ancient Written Law Codes (codified_law) | commercial_or_scaling_dependency | 80% | review | The source treats contract enforcement and share-transfer rules as part of the market organization problem. |
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