Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. Financial Market Report Switzerland // 2009

    April 2009

    • Economic Expectations Hardly Changed
    • Eurozone: Interest Rates Fall to Historically Low Point
    • USA: Economy Continues to Shrink
    • Japan: Economic Expectations Remain Pessimistic
    • Great Britain: Expectations for the…
  2. Refereed Journal // 2009

    Transparency of Regulation and Cross-Border Bank Mergers

    There is ample anecdotal evidence that political influence might constitute a barrier to the integration of European banking markets. Based on a dataset on the transparency on the supervisory review process of…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-015 // 2009

    The Role of Structural Common and Country-Specific Shocks in the Business Cycle Dynamics of the G7 Countries

    The study analyses the business cycles of the G7 countries in a structural vector autoregression(SVAR) framework comprising output, nominal interest rate and inflation. Common and country-specific supply, demand…

  4. ZEW Economic Studies Vol. 42 // 2009

    Projecting Potential Output

    In spite of the widespread use of the concept of potential output in economic theory and empirical applications as well as in economic policy debates, the historical background and the assumptions inherent to…

  5. Financial Market Report CEE // 2009

    April 2009

    • Economic Expectations for the CEE Region Further Stabilise
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Business Outlook Brightens Further
    • Hungary, Romania, and Croatia: Economic Expectations Move Sideways
    • Special…
  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2009

    Nachhaltige Vermögensanlagen für Stiftungen

  7. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2009

    April 2009

    • Experten sind erneut gelassener
    • EZB: Zinsen auf historischem Tiefstand
    • USA: US-Wirtschaft schrumpft weiter
    • Japan: Neues milliardenschweres Konjunkturpaket geplant
    • Großbritannien: Inflationserwartungen nehmen erneut…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)