Written by a team of scholars, predominantly from the Centre for Financial Studies in Frankfurt, this volume provides a descriptive survey of the present state

This book analyses the widely-held view of the merits of the 'bank-based' German system of finance for investment, and shows that this view is not supported by

The volume contains 23 articles by international experts, both scholars and practioners dealing with the development of institutional investors (such as banks,

Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy