The ongoing financial crisis so far cost the German financial sector 38 billion Euros due to losses on its mortgage-related subprime bank exposures. This paper looks for the impact of these losses on the real sector of the economy. First, the financial sector is looked at as part of the overall...

The sources of finance for industrial development include (i) banks, (ii) securities markets, (iii) internal finance, (iv) alternative sources of finance such as angel finance, trade credit, families, and friends, and (v) governments. All four countries had sophisticated financial systems and...

In Deutschland informieren zwei Statistiken über die Entwicklung und die Struktur von staatlichen Fördermitteln für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in der Wirtschaft: die FuE-Statistik des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft sowie die Statistik des Bundesministeriums für Bildung...