Es gehört zu den bemerkenswerten Paradoxien der gegenwärtigen empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung, dass für einzelne Unternehmen die Gewinne als zentraler Erfolgsindikator eine überragende Rolle spielen. Dagegen werden auf aggregierter, insbesondere auf gesamtwirtschaftlicher Ebene -...

The German banking market is notorious for its low degree of market penetration by foreign financial institutions, suggesting that markets serviced by domestic and foreign banks are segmented. This paper employs a number of tests to determine whether activities of domestic and foreign banks are...

The German financial system is characterized by lower degrees of penetration by foreign commercial banks and of (bank) disintermedation than, for instance, that of the United States. These differences between the two countries could be attributed to the fact that universal banking in Germany...

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...