Economic nationalism in the banking industry of Germany

The crises have had their grip on the financial market since 2008 and the lack of proper supranational (EU) measures may have stimulated an increase in domestic measures favouring the domestic financial market. This thesis will give an interim review on the significance and nature of economic nationalism in Germany’s banking industry. In order to sketch the current situation and provide possible predictions for the future, domestic and supranational responses of the German government to the financial market since the crisis will be evaluated and tested to economic nationalism. A mix of severe and mild forms of economic nationalism are apparent in Germany today through; benign economic nationalism in individual responses to the crisis, and malign economic nationalism on the ideas regarding the banking union.