Deregulation and increasing cross-border competition in the financial industry are affecting not only firms but also those organisations that provide markets, i.e., stock exchanges. The process of changing governance structures is exemplified in this paper by the case of Deutsche Börse AG, the...

National borders are still strong barriers for mergers and acquisitions in Europe. We estimate a gravity equation model based on NUTS 2-regions and find that the restraining impact of national borders decreased by about a third between 1990 and 2007. However, there has been no significant change...

Main description: Für Frankfurt - ebenso wie für andere Finanzplätze in der Europäischen Union - stellt sich die Frage nach deren weiterem Schicksal. Der Autor analysiert die Entwicklung des Finanzplatzes Frankfurt vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis in die jüngste Zeit und zieht daraus...