The main argument in this paper is that new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the financial industry will increase specialisation and competition within the European financial centre system and thereby lead to a ‘re-bundling’ of functions of the various financial centres....

This paper discusses whether, in which respects, and to what extent the corporate governancesystems of Germany, the United Kingdom and France have already converged in the course ofEuropean economic integration, or are likely to converge in the foreseeable future. Wepresent, and attempt to...

Major differences between national financial systems might make a common monetary policy difficult. As within Europe, Germany and the United Kingdom differ most with respect to their financial systems, the present paper addresses its topic under the assumption that the United Kingdom is already...

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...

The goal of any investor is to obtain the highest possible return for his or her money. However for years, the debate has continued; stocks, bonds, mutual funds; which of these financial instruments will produce the greatest gain to give the investor the highest profit? Historically, stocks have...