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 paper aspires to provide an overview of the issue of diversity of banking and financial systems and its development over time from a positive and a normative perspective. In other word: how different are banks within a given country and how much do banking systems and entire financial...

In early July 2019, Christian Sewing, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, proclaimed a fundamental shift of the bank's strategy after finally obtaining the approval of the Supervisory Board, which the management seems to have requested for quite some time. The essential point of the reorientation is a...

This article discusses how the German and the international academic debates about corporate finance developed in the course of the past 50 years, and how they are related. Four different phases of development are distinguished and contrasted. The main aspect in which they differ relates to the...