Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. Refereed Journal // 2012

    Modeling and Explaining the Dynamics of European Union Allowance Prices at High-Frequency

    In this paper we model the adjustment process of European Union Allowance (EUA) prices to the releases of announcements at high-frequency controlling for intraday periodicity, volatility clustering and…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Financial literacy and retirement planning in Germany

    We examine financial literacy in Germany using data from the SAVE survey. We find that knowledge of basic financial concepts is lacking among women, the less educated, and those living in East Germany. In…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Dynamics of Commercial Real Estate Asset Markets, Return Volatility, and the Investment Horizon

    The term structure of return volatility is estimated for both UK and US direct and securitised commercial real estate, using vector autoregressions. In a similar manner to the general stock market, returns of UK…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)