Explores the idea that Europe's growth problems may be caused by weaknesses in capital markets and in the access to risk capital. It addresses the evaluation of the financial needs and constraints of start-up firms and how these might be bridged. The role of public sector intervention is...

This books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to...

In this paper we analyze the effectiveness of more than 30 years of efforts by international banking supervisors, working together in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, to harmonize capital and liquidity standards for internationally active banks. Notwithstanding the great efforts and...

und Gegenstand der Arbeit -- Begriffsbildung -- Theoretische Fundierung -- Ableitung des Forschungsmodells -- Befragungsdesign, Stichprobe und Methode -- Ergebnisse der empirischen Untersuchung -- Implikationen und kritische Würdigung.