Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2009

    Mai 2009

    • Erwartungen wieder im positiven Bereich
    • EZB: Noch Spielraum für Zinssenkungen
    • USA: Leichte Besserung in Sicht
    • Japan: Konjunkturpaket weckt Hoffnung
    • Großbritannien: Keine Angst vor einer Deflation
    • Sonderfrage: Die…
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-018 // 2009

    Intraday Price Formation and Volatility in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme: An Introductory Analysis

    This paper presents an introductory analysis of price formation and volatility in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme using highfrequency data. The results show that there are several anomalies both in…

  3. 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…
  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)