A widely recognized paper by Colin Mayer (1988) has led to a profound revision of academicthinking about financing patterns of corporations in different countries. Using flow-of-funds datainstead of balance sheet data, Mayer and others who followed his lead found that internalfinancing is the...

Dieses bewährte Standardwerk bietet einen Überblick über grundlegende Probleme und Lösungsansätze sowie Modelle der Investitions- und Finanzierungstheorie. Die Autoren stellen die neuere institutionentheoretische und die kapitalmarktorientierte Richtung gleichberechtigt nebeneinander und...

This book is both a reference book on Germany's financial system and a contribution to the economic debate about its status at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In giving a comprehensive account of the many facets of the system, it covers corporate governance, relationship lending,...