"Mutual funds are the dominant form of investment companies in the United States today, with approximately $7 trillion in assets under management. Over the past half century an important body of academic research has addressed various issues about the nature of these companies. These works focus...

Main description: Mit der vorliegenden Gedächtnisschrift ehren Freunde, Weggefährten und Schüler Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Ketterer, der bis 2003 im Verbund des Instituts für Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität Karlsruhe tätig war. Der Band fasst seine...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the financial systems of major industrialized countries using the statistical framework of the financial accounts. After a discussion of how economists agreed to create a framework to monitor the financial linkages between surplus and deficit sectors,...