Intro -- Case Information Matrix -- Part I: Background -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Overview -- Rationale -- Focus -- Methodology -- Contributions -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Business Environment -- Introduction -- Physical and Geographic Environment -- The Social and...

In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy?as financial intermediary, as lender to the corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance...