This Paper gives an overview of the German banking system and current challenges it is facing. It starts with an overview of the so-called "Three-Pillar-Banking-System" and a detailed description of the current structure of the banking system in Germany. A brief comparison of the banking system...

Einleitung / Cornelius Prittwitz -- Sozialwissenschaftliche Mediatisierung über Einfluss und Wirkung / Klaus Lüderssen † -- Die politische wirtschaftsstraftat: gibt es sie? / Thomas Rönnau -- Die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Perspektiven und deren Verhältnis zur Mikroökonomie / Carl Christian...

This paper provides an account of the history of Deutsche Bank in the style of a narrative. Since more than 120 years, Deutsche Bank has been the most important German bank. Its history has been shaped by crises and efforts to overcome them. Moreover, throughout its history, the development of...

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...