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Railroad Over-Capitalization

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Over-capitalization in (1) construction, 602. — (2) Replacement of property as inviting stock-watering, 602. — Incompetence or fraud, 603. — The Rock Island and Boston & Maine affairs, 604. — (3) Division of an accumulated surplus, 606. — Indirect devices therefor, 607.— Magnitude of railway surpluses, 608. — Equitable interest of the public therein, 609. — The opposing views stated, 610. — The just intermediate opinion, 611. — The Massachusetts gas companies, 613. — Difficult to apply in practice, 614. — (4) Refunding as a concomitant of inflation, 616. — (5) Stock-watering incidental to consolidation, 617. — Financial advantage of mergers, 618. — The New Haven collapse, 619. — Connecticut trolley finance, 620. — The Rhode Island companies, 621. — The Boston & Maine road and the Westchester Co., 622. — (6) Reorganization and stock-watering, 624. — The Third Avenue Railroad case, 626. — Conclusion, 628.

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  • W. Z. Ripley, 1914. "Railroad Over-Capitalization," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 28(4), pages 601-629.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:28:y:1914:i:4:p:601-629.
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    1. Spronk, Jaap & van der Wijst, Nico, 2005. "Financial modelling and the quality of corporate reports," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 161(2), pages 295-297, March.

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