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Wigmore, Barrie Atherton was born on April 11, 1941 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Son of Fred Henry and Pauline Elizabeth (Atherton) Wigmore. came to the United States, 1970.
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The Crash and Its Aftermath is an excellent work of reference on the Great Contraction. It will be useful both to people with only a passing curiosity about the Crash and to those for whom the Great Depression is a major scholarly concern. Business History From now on any serious student of the Depression will be obliged to consult this work for a sense of securities price movements, investor attitudes, and relevant contemporary sources. Journal of Economic History This is the first book to focus on the broader structural changes which took place in the financial industry over the full period of decline from the Stock Market Crash in 1929 to the end of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's One Hundred Days in 1933. The basis for many of Wigmore's comments is an analysis of 142 leading companies whose stocks constituted approximately 77 percent of the market value of all New York Stock Exchange stocks. Wigmore also examines the various bond markets and relates the money market to the bond market, monetary policy, business conditions, and the problems of the banking system. Treating each year from 1929 to 1933 separately, Wigmore shows the interrelation between the stock, bond, and money markets and events in politics, the economy, international trade and finance, and monetary policy. The Statistical Appendix of 41 tables consolidates financial statistics which have hitherto been widely dispersed, permitting in-depth study.
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Securities Markets in the 1980s is the first of two volumes that provide a uniquely comprehensive history of stock, bond, and merger markets in the 1980s as well as the economic and policy environments in which they took place. This volume analyzes the dramatic recovery in the stock and bond markets and the surge in merger activity in the first half of the 1980s, following the dismal record of the 1970s. Author Barrie Wigmore demonstrates that the period from 1979 to 1984 was a sharp departure from the economic regime of the past decade. Wigmore expertly relates the change to the new policy regime created by the Reagan administration, Federal Reserve monetary policy, falling oil prices, and the strong dollar. Although the securities markets, the economy, and inflation were performing favorably by mid-decade, this book reveals the stress and pain that were required to position them so favorably--contrary to rational expectations theory. Stocks and bonds reached their nadir in 1982, there were persistent financial crises that had to be surmounted, and many capital goods and commodities industries contracted permanently. With a practitioner's eye for important inter-relationships, Wigmore reveals the impact of the Reagan administration on investor optimism and sorts out the influence of the Federal Reserve and the budget deficit on interest rates. He vividly recounts the crises that had to be surmounted in international and domestic finance, and provides unique insight into the role of antitrust policy, lower bank lending standards, and junk bonds in the merger boom. Wigmore also describes the roots of some of the decade's later speculative excesses in treasury bond trading, the futures markets, mortgage-backed securities, and the junk bond market. Written by a former general partner at Goldman Sachs, the insights this book offers into the workings of the securities markets will be of great interest to investors generally, academics and students in the field of finance, professionals in securities firms, and government policy makers.
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Wigmore, Barrie Atherton was born on April 11, 1941 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Son of Fred Henry and Pauline Elizabeth (Atherton) Wigmore. came to the United States, 1970.
Bachelor of Education, University Saskatchewan, Canada, 1962. Bachelor, University Saskatchewan, Canada, 1963. Master of Arts, University Oregon, 1964.
Bachelor, Oxford University, England, 1966. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1971. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Saskatchewan, 2002.
Investment banker, Goldman, Sachs & Company. New York City, since 1970. Board directors Potash Corporation Saskatchewan, National Svc.
Industries Inc.
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Trustee American Friends of Worcester College (University of Oxford) Inc.
Married Deedee Dawson, August 24, 1964.