Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

'How does the organizational form of loan syndicates evolve and what are the effects on price collusion? We develop a novel measure of distance in lending expertise among syndicate lenders, and relate this novel…

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• How Market Design Can Make Food Donations More Efficient
• Q&A: How Revolutionary Is Blockchain Technology?
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• The Future of Work – Digitalisation Creates Jobs but Needs Targeted Funding
• Introducing a EU Finance Minister – A New Office Bringing Little Added Value to Europe
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Do governments strategically choose debt maturity to fill supply gaps across maturities? Building on a new panel data set of more than 9,000 individual Eurozone government debt issues between 1999 and…

Syndication increases the overlap of bank loan portfolios and makes them more vulnerable to contagious effects. We develop a novel measure of bank interconnectedness using syndicated corporate loan portfolios,…