Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW Documentation No. 08-03 // 2008

    Trends im Retail-Banking: Ausländische Banken im deutschen Bankenmarkt

    Kaum ein anderes Geschäftsfeld im deutschen Bankensektor hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren so dynamisch entwickelt wie das Retail-Banking. Ein wesentlicher Grund hierfür ist die zunehmende Präsenz…

  2. Financial Market Report Switzerland // 2008

    July 2008

    • Economic Expectations Remain Dampened
    • Eurozone: Economic Expectations Continue to Hover at a Low Level
    • USA: Experts Foresee Renewed Interest Rate Hikes
    • Japan: Economic Expectations Brighten up
    • Great Britain:…
  3. Financial Market Report CEE // 2008

    July 2008

    • Mostly Positive Assessment of the Current Economic Situation in CEE
    • Czech Republic and Slovakia: Economic Expectations Brighten up; Good Current Situation Assessed for Poland
    • Hungary, Romania, Croatia: Stabilized…
  4. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2008

    Juli 2008

    • Konjunktursorgen wegen Inflation und erwarteter Zinserhöhungen
    • EZB: Zinserhöhung steht bevor
    • USA: Experten rechnen mit Zinserhöhungen
    • Japan: Normalisierung des Zinsniveaus erwartet
    • Großbritannien: Konjunkturschwäche…
  5. Financial Market Report Switzerland // 2008

    June 2008

    • Economic Expectations Brighten up Again
    • Eurozone: Economic Expectations Remain Pessimistic
    • USA: No Further Interest Rate Cuts Anticipated
    • Japan: Survey Participants Forecast Climbing Inflation Rates
    • Great Britain:…
  6. Financial Market Report CEE // 2008

    June 2008

    • Experts are More Cautious in Their Economic Expectations for Central and Eastern Europe
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Good Current Situation; Weaker Economic Expectations
    • Hungary, Romania, Croatia: Current…
  7. Discussion and Working Paper // 2008

    Expected Inflation, Expected Stock Returns, and Money Illusion: What can we learn from Survey Expectations?

    We show empirically that survey-based measures of expected inflation are significant and strong predictors of future aggregate stock returns in several industrialized countries both in-sample and out-of-sample.…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)