1. Financial Market Report Switzerland // 2011

    January 2011

    • Economic Outlook Brightens up
    • Eurozone: Economic Outlook Continues to Improve
    • USA: Inflation Expectations Still Subdued
    • Japan: Interest Rate Forecasts Remain Low
    • Great Britain: Economic Outlook Lights up a Little
    • Spe…
  2. Financial Market Report CEE // 2011

    January 2011

    • Reduced Economic Expectations for Central and Eastern Europe
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Brighter Outlook for Slovakia
    • Croatia, Hungary, and Romania: Higher Interest Rates in Hungary
    • Turkey: Positive…
  3. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2011

    Januar 2011

    • Stabile Erwartungen zum Jahreswechsel
    • EZB: Experten erwarten steigende Inflation
    • USA: Lageeinschätzung verbessert sich
    • Japan: Finanzmarktexperten weiterhin skeptisch
    • Großbritannien: Experten überraschend…
  4. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Pension Funds’ Performance in Strongly Regulated Industries in Central Europe: Evidence from Poland and Hungary

    This paper presents an analysis of pension funds' performance in Poland and Hungary, two Central European countries characterized by strong regulation of their private pension fund industries. Thus, the paper…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Getting more work for nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance

    We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Business Cycle Co-movement and Trade Intensity in the Euro Area: is there a Dynamic Link?

    This paper extends the recent literature that exclusively looks at the static link between bilateral trade intensity and business cycle synchronisation. A cross section augmented VAR framework with an …