Die ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen der Ernährungswirtschaft verschärfen sich zunehmend mit weitreichenden Konsequenzen auch auf die Agrarwirtschaft. Infolgedessen ist es erforderlich, Möglichkeiten aufzuzeigen, um die heimische Landwirtschaft in ihrer Wettbewerbsposition als Zulieferer der...

In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy?as financial intermediary, as lender to the corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance...

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...