Germany: Selected Issues
November 6, 2003
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The study on selected issues first focuses on business fixed investment, then analyzes the profitability of Germany’s banking sector and looks at restructuring options, and finally, examines the international dimensions of Germany’s financial sector. The paper reviews the various ways in which public policy could contribute to restructuring, drawing on the experiences of other countries that have had large public banking sectors. There is no evidence that either recent tax reforms or weak U.S. growth has had a significant independent impact on investment.
Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Cooperative banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, National accounts, Private investment, Public sector, State-owned banks
Keywords: bank, bank profitability, business investment, Commercial banks, Cooperative banks, CR, Europe, GDP growth, Germany, Global, investment, investment goods inflation, ISCR, Private investment, Public sector, public sector bank, State-owned banks, user cost of capital
Pages:
114
Volume:
2003
DOI:
Issue:
342
Series:
Country Report No. 2003/342
Stock No:
1DEUEA0032003
ISBN:
9781451810462
ISSN:
1934-7685
