Banks and Securities Markets: Corporate Financing in Germany and the United Kingdom.
This paper compares corporate financing in the German bank-based and U.K. market-based systems. Large German firms pay out a lower proportion of their profits as dividends and finance a larger proportion of their investments from retentions. German banks extend more long-term finance to medium-sized...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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1990
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