Individual financial systems can be understood as very specific configurations of certain keyelements. Often these configurations remain unchanged for decades. We hypothesize that thereis a specific relationship between key elements, namely that of complementarity. Thus,complementarity seems to...

The paper presents an empirical analysis of the alledged transformation of the financial systems in the three major European economies, France, Germany and the UK. Based on a unified data set developed on the basis of national accounts statistics, and employing a new and consistent method of...

Die auf Arbeiten von K. J. Arrow und G. Debreu zurückgehendeTheorie arbitragefreier Bewertung leistet einen grundlegenden Beitrag zur Erklärung der Preisbildung auf Kapitalmärkten. Auf einem im Gleichgewicht befindlichen Markt ist keine Arbitrage möglich, d.h.:(...)

Finanzmarkt: Marktsituation: hoch kompetitive, globalisierte und deregulierte Märkte mit hohem Innovationsdruck; hohe Anforderungen an das Know-How und die Fähigkeit zur ständigenAktualisierung des Know-Hows... In den Finanzabteilungen der Unternehmen, bei den Trägerinstitutionen der Börsen...

After a fundamental definition of the term leasing, the origination of the leasing business is described in this working paper. After its development in the first, second and third generation is commented. The woreking paper closes with an outlook onto thge future development of the leasing...

An economy in which deposit-taking banks of a Diamond/ Dybvig style and an asset market coexist is modelled. Firstly, within this framework we characterize distinct financial systems depending on the fraction of households with direct investment opportunities that are less efficient than those...

This paper is a draft for the chapter “German banks and banking structure” of theforthcoming book “The German financial system”. As such, the paper starts out with adescription of past and present structural features of the German banking industry. Given thepresented empirical evidence it...

Der folgende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie die Verteilung von Entscheidungsund Handlungsrechten in Unternehmen im Rahmen der Corporate Governance ausgestaltet werden kann. Im Zentrum der Überlegungen steht die Frage, welcher der am Unternehmen beteiligten Interessengruppen diese Rechte...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, it has been widely expected that the implementation of the European Single Market would lead to a rapid convergence of Europe’s financial systems. In the present paper we will show that at least in the period prior to the introduction of the common currency...