In this paper, we first discuss the notion of important financial centres and the socioeconomic and political conditions which need to be fulfilled for such a centre to exist. We then address the issue of the so-called end of geographyʺ which has attracted a lot of attention recently. Under...

The German corporate governance system has long been cited as the standard example of an insider-controlled and stakeholder-oriented system. We argue that despite important reforms and substantial changes of individual elements of the German corporate governance system the main characteristics...