Financialization made in Germany: A review

Financialization made in Germany: A review
Daniel Detzer
Institute for International Political Economy Berlin, 2019
Level: beginner
Perspectives: Institutionalist Economics, Other, Post-Keynesian Economics
Topic: Money & Debt
Format: Working Paper
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/203147

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Financialization made in Germany: A review 

Daniel Detzer | 2019

 

Abstract: This article examines the spread of financialization in Germany before the financial crisis. It provides an up-to date overview on the literature on financialization and reviews which of the phenomena typically associated with financialization have emerged in Germany. In particular, the article aims to clarify how the prevailing institutional structure and its changes had contributed to or had countervailed the spread of financialization and how it had shaped the specific German variant of financialization. For this end, it combines the rich literature on Germany's institutional structure with the more macroeconomic oriented literature on financializaton. With the combination of those different perspectives the article sheds light on the reasons for the spread of financialization and the specific forms it has taken in Germany.

Key words: Banking, Corporate Governance, Financialization, Financial Sector, Financial Regulation, Varieties of Capitalism

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