Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

One of the key pillars of the European Green Deal is a renewed sustainable finance strategy to finance sustainable growth and to channel private investments towards projects that support the transition to a…

The ZEW Financial Market Survey is a monthly panel survey among financial market experts that was launched in December 1991. The survey focuses on the experts’ expectations about international financial markets…

• Financing Situtation and Outlook Again Viewed Negatively
• Residential and Logistic Properties Come Out Best
• Outlook for All Refinancing Markets Is Getting Brighter; the Assessment of the Current Situtation Is…

• Konjunkturausblick verschlechtert sich abermals
• Eurozone: Reduktion der Inflationsrate erwartet
• USA: Konjunkturerwartungen verschlechtern sich weiter
• China: Konjunkturausblick unverändert (schlecht)
• Sonder…

Financial literacy affects wealth accumulation, and pension planning plays a key role in this relationship. In a large field experiment, we employ a digital pension aggregation tool to confront a treatment group…

• Konjunkturausblick verschlechtert sich weiter
• Eurozone: Rezession wahrscheinlicher
• USA: Konjunkturerwartungen unverändert schlecht
• China: Konjunkturauslick abermals verschlechtert
• Sonderfrage zu…

• Konjunkturausblick bleibt gleich (schlecht)
• Eurozone: Konjunktureinschätzung verbessert sich
• USA: Konjunkturerwartungen bleiben düster
• China: Ausblick verschlechtert sich
• Sonderfrage: Inflations- und…

Despite the socio-political importance of occupational pensions since the pension reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, the incomplete evidence base, lack of transparency and lack of data have been regularly…

• Assessments of current situation and outlook for financing deteriorate significantly
• Pessimism affects all use types
• Significant deterioration in sentiment in the refinancing markets
• Further deterioration…