Die drei Hauptteile dieses Aufsatzes sind den Themen Theoriegeschichte, Methodologie und Theorie der Unternehmung im Werk von Dieter Schneider gewidmet. Ich erläutere jeweils, worin Schneiders wichtigste originäre Beiträge bestehen, kommentiere diese dann kurz und gehe abschließend ganz kurz...

This paper aspires to provide an overview of the issue of diversity of banking and financial systems and its development over time from a positive and a normative perspective. In other word: how different are banks within a given country and how much do banking systems and entire financial...

The financial crisis of 2007-08 has stressed the importance of a sound financial system. Unlike other studies weighing the pros and cons of market versus bank-based systems, this paper investigates whether the main elements of the German financial system can be regarded as complementary and...