Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-55 // 2000

    The British Foreign Exchange Reserves Puzzle

    The British foreign exchange reserves decreased by 40 percent during the period August 1996-December 1999 although the Pound Sterling is considered a floating exchange rate since it left the EMS in 1992. Since…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-43 // 2000

    The Political Economy of EU Enlargement and the Treaty of Nice

    The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The starting point is the assumption that accession can only be successfully completed if the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-39 // 2000

    New Economy Accounting: Why Are Broad-Based Stock Option Plans So Attractive?

    In recent years stock option plans have become a substantial part of compensation schemes in U.S. companies. While in the beginning companies granted options only to the top-management more and more companies…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)