This volume was prepared by Markus Reischmann while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in November 2015. It includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public...

Das Buch liefert eine elementare Einführung in die Finanzwissenschaft. Es richtet sich an Studenten im Grundstudium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie an Studenten im Hauptstudium, die einen schnellen Einstieg in die konzeptionellen Grundlagen der modernen Finanzwissenschaft gewinnen wollen....

The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto examines the large community of sake brewer-moneylenders in Japan's capital city, focusing on their rise to prominence from the mid-1300s to 1550. Their guild tie to overlords, notably the great monastery Enryakuji, was forged early in the medieval period,...