Projects of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.09.2013 – 31.05.2016

    Stock market expectations and risk perception depending on the exact elicitation form

    In the recent decades, economic research has begun to intensively analyze the role of agents’ expectations for economic outcomes. Academic studies acknowledge that the link between a piece of information and…

  2. Project // 01.09.2013 – 31.08.2014

    What is the Impact on Potential Output of the Crises in the Eurozone?

    Against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone, the project has two objectives. First, the impact on the potential volume of work and thus on the potential output in the European crisis countries…

  3. Project // 01.08.2013 – 31.12.2017

    ZEW-PwC Indicator of Economic Sentiment China

    The Centre for European Economic research (ZEW), in co-operation with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), conducts a quarterly survey on Chinese economic development and economic ties between Germany and China. The …

  4. Project // 01.07.2013 – 31.10.2015

    Socio-Economic Assessment of the Danube Region: State of the Region, Challenges and Strategy Development

    The EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) is a joint macro-regional strategy of the countries of the Danube Region and the European Commission. The EUSDR area includes the German Federal States…

  5. Project // 01.07.2013 – 31.03.2014

    Sustainably Overcoming the Crisis in the Euro-Zone: Progress in the Crisis-Countries and Institutional Challenges

    The study is divided into three parts. Part 1 quantitatively investigates the adjustment paths of key economic variables in the European crisis countries with a particular focus on growth-relevant factors like…

  6. Project // 27.05. – 31.10.2013

    Sovereign Debt Restructuring in Argentina

    This report examines the question of whether Argentina´s responses during its sovereign debt crisis, and its subsequent restructuring, are comparable to the behavior of other countries in similar situations. …

  7. Project // 01.04.2013 – 31.03.2015

    Evonik-specific Early Warning System: Monthly Updates

    The objective of the project was 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…

  8. Project // 01.01.2013 – 31.03.2014

    The Contribution of Private Equity to Firm Succession

    The aim of the project is, in a first step, to build a database covering information on succession cases of mid-cap firms in Europe in which a private equity investor is involved. Relevant data is currently…

  9. Project // 01.01.2013 – 31.05.2014

    Auxiliary Approaches for Increasing Market Transparency and Preventing Market Abuse in the Commodity Futures Trade

    Over the course of the previous decade, price fluctuations on international commodity markets have been observed to be significantly higher than in the decades before. While in the 1980’s and 90’s price…