Projects of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2020

    Pension Dashboard for more transparency in old-age provision

    In the coalition agreement of 2018, the federal government set the goal to provide a pension information covering all three pillars of retirement income. This means that the public pension entitlements as well…

  2. Project // 01.01.2020 – 31.03.2021

    The distributional implications of tax-favoured retirement accounts: Evidence from German tax-return data

    Following pension reforms aiming to reduce the demographic burden on pay-as-you-go pension schemes, Germany and many other countries introduced substantial tax benefits to set incentives for third pillar…

  3. Project // 01.05.2019 – 31.03.2021

    Coming to terms with ambiguous asset dimensions: quality, beauty and uniqueness in the built environment

    In this project we will first train a computer vision model from ground up. The resulting machine learning model will be the first to be fully optimised for the built environment, offering an alternative…

  4. Project // 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2021

    Evonik-Specific Early Warning System: Monthly Updates (2017-2021)

    The objective of the project is to identify and construct forward-looking indicators in order to assess the developments in the markets of selected sectors and regularly deliver them to Evonik Industries AG…

  5. Project // 01.01.2013 – 31.03.2021

    China Economic Panel

    From 2013 to 2021 the Centre of European Economic Research (ZEW) and one of China’s leading universities, the Fudan University in Shanghai, conducted a monthly survey on the Chinese Economy. This “China…

  6. Project // 01.05.2011 – 01.01.2025

    Survey on the German Market for Real Estate Finance

    The German real estate finance index is based on a survey conducted by ZEW. In the first part of the survey, experts in the market for real estate finance are asked to evaluate current financing conditions as…

  7. Project // 01.01.2009 – 31.12.2020

    Business Cycle Tableaus

    Each month, macroeconomic forecasts from banks and research institutes for Germany and the Euro Area are compiled and presented.

  8. Project // 01.12.1991 – 31.12.2030

    ZEW Financial Market Survey

    The ZEW Financial Market Survey has been carried out on a monthly basis since December 1991. It reveals the financial market’s expectations on the development of important international economies. Currently these…

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024

    ZEW Private Debt Survey

    The main objective of the ZEW Private Debt Survey is to enhance the knowledge of market participants about the European private debt market. The focus of the survey are overall conditions of the European Corporate…