Projects of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.07.2010 – 30.04.2011

    Analysis of the heterogeneity of the ZEW Exchange Rate Forecasts

    This project is part of the department’s research activity in the field Expectation Formation in Financial Markets. It addresses the question “How to explain the heterogeneity in the predicting ability of…

  2. Project // 01.07. – 31.12.2010

    The role of multinational corporations in the international business cycle

    The rapid growth of international trade and cross ownership during the last decades has changed the structure of economic interdependencies in the world economy. Empirical research provides evidence of the…

  3. Project // 01.05.2010 – 30.06.2011

    The partisan effects on the economic expectations of firms and households

    The ideological orientation of governments can affect the economic performance in various ways. The political-economic partisan politics literature provides lots of evidence that the ideological orientation…

  4. Project // 01.03.2010 – 31.08.2011

    Appropriate Calibration of Accounting-based Business Valuation Models

    Accounting-based valuation models play a prominent role not only in empirical valuation research, but also in the practice of business valuation. The main characteristic of these models is their use of input…

  5. Project // 01.03.2010 – 31.07.2013

    Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)

    The project used a common conceptual framework to develop and apply tools that enable assessment and comparison of CSR impacts – at micro (company), meso (sectoral and regional) and macro levels (nations…

  6. Project // 01.02. – 31.10.2010

    Support schemes for venture capital and innovation finance in the context of capital markets - an international overview

    The objective of this study is a comparison of German support programs for venture capital with support programs in the following countries: USA, UK, France, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and Japan. …

  7. Project // 15.01. – 30.09.2010

    Extension of the Early Bird models

    Aim of the project is to develop time series based business cycle models for important purchasing industries of the chemical sector.

  8. Project // 01.01. – 30.09.2010

    Asset Management for German Foundations using Socially Responsible Investments: Update 2010

    Objective and motivation of the project: The projects objective is the assessment of the role of sustainability funds in the asset management of German charitable foundations. In this additional project the…

  9. Project // 01.01. – 08.11.2010

    Interest Rate Restrictions and Their Economic Implications

    Legal interest rate restrictions have been a controversial issue among economists for centuries. In practice, several countries have imposed different rules on interest rate ceilings as well as the…