| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | Institutional Stability and Change |
| 3 | The Existing Path of the German Financial System |
| 4 | The Change to a New Path |
| 4.1 | A Brief Empirical History |
| 4.2 | The Role of Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms |
| 5 | Meet the New Path - Same as the Old Path? |
| 6 | References |