A widely recognized paper by Colin Mayer (1988) has led to a profound revision of academicthinking about financing patterns of corporations in different countries. Using flow-of-funds datainstead of balance sheet data, Mayer and others who followed his lead found that internalfinancing is the...

In early July 2019, Christian Sewing, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, proclaimed a fundamental shift of the bank's strategy after finally obtaining the approval of the Supervisory Board, which the management seems to have requested for quite some time. The essential point of the reorientation is a...

This book is both a reference book on Germany's financial system and a contribution to the economic debate about its status at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In giving a comprehensive account of the many facets of the system, it covers corporate governance, relationship lending,...