Projects of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.12.2010 – 31.12.2011

    Housing Markets and Intra-euro area Macroeconomic Imbalances: Identifying Policy Instruments

    Main objective of the study is to detect the causes of imbalances on residential property and housing finance markets in order to define policy instruments that help preventing the emergence of market…

  2. Project // 01.11.2010 – 31.07.2011

    Housing Markets Observatory Baden-Wuerttemberg

    The project analyses the development of demand and supply on the housing market in the Germany federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Special attention in the coming issue will be paid to the housing market for…

  3. Project // 01.10.2010 – 31.08.2011

    Effects of Structural Changes in Investment Markets on the Real Economy

    In recent years, the range of investment products offered by the finance industry has grown immensely. Traditional products such as bank deposits, equity and pension funds have been joined by new products, e.g.…

  4. Project // 01.10.2010 – 31.03.2012

    SEEK-Project 2010: Anticipated Technology Shocks in the European Economies

    Recent macroeconomic literature emphasises the importance of expected future technology improvements (the so-called news shocks) for the macroeconomic dynamics. The impact of these shocks has rarely been…

  5. Project // 20.09.2010 – 31.01.2011

    Study on demographic change and the future of EU cohesion policy

    Aim of the project is to assess the effects of the demographic change on regional economic development in Europe.

  6. Project // 16.07. – 15.09.2010

    The Social Significance of Investment Funds

    Currently available statistics on investment fund assets of German investors only incorporate direct investments. The aim of the study is to estimate indirect investments of retail investors such as…

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. Project // 01.07.2010 – 31.12.2012

    ZEW/gif-Office Market Forecast

    The ZEW/gif office market forecast is a semi-annual survey which has been conducted since the middle of 2010. Real estate companies are asked for their forecast about vacancy rates, prime rents and prime yields…