This paper traces the location of foreign banks in Germany from 1949 to 2006. As suggested by new economic geography models we find a 'u'-shaped concentration of foreign banks in Germany. Only after a competition between several cities, Frankfurt has emerged as the pre-eminent financial centre,...

Die Entwicklung des Finanzplatzes Frankfurt war in den zurückliegenden Jahren durcheine Reihe externer Faktoren geprägt, zu denen z. B. das allgemeine wirtschaftlicheUmfeld und die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschlandgehören. Aber auch Verhaltensänderungen von...

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....

In this paper, we first discuss the notion of 'important financial centres' and the socioeconomic and political conditions which need to be fulfilled for such a centre to exist. We then address the issue of the so-called 'end of geography' which has attracted a lot of attention recently. Under...