Ten Eastern European countries are currently conducting negotiations with the EU with the aim of becoming a member of the European Union as soon as possible. When joining the EU, these Eastern European countries…
This project intends to close a gap between empirical and theoretical capital market research. The stochastic processes for stock price developments that have so far been derived in theoretical research are only…
Although the lending business is of great importance to the earnings and risk situation of banks, there are few empirical studies on the lending and credit surveillance process. The research project "Loan…
An den internationalen Aktienmärkten kann seit längerem eine zunehmende Institutionalisierung festgestellt werden. Dies bedeutet, dass immer mehr privates Kapital von institutionellen Investoren, wie z. B.…
The ZEW´s macro-econometric model for Germany (Mannheim Macroeconometric Model) facilitates, on the basis of the neo-Keynesian theory, the analysis of economic processes and the classification of specific…
Prognos (Basel) and ZEW (Mannheim), drawing on support by German Parcel, have developed a business sentiment indicator for the transport industry. The main idea of this Transport Market Barometer is to utilise the…
Das System der Alterssicherung in Deutschland steht nach mehreren Reformen in den Neunzigerjahren erneut auf dem Prüfstand. Zwei Gruppen, die von einer möglichen Neuausrichtung des auf mehreren Säulen basierenden…
Corporate governance is the complex system of legal, institutional and market-based control devices of large companies. The functioning of this system is, however, only weakly explained by economic theory and…