Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW policy brief No. 23-10 // 2023

    Does the European Union need another Green Bond Standard?

    On February 28, 2023, the European Union (EU) reached a political agreement on a future regulation of green bonds, the European Green Bond Standard (EU GBS). Last Friday, the European Parliament officially…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-019 // 2023

    Do Individuals Accept Fluctuations in Pension Income?

    How to invest and decumulate wealth during retirement has far-reaching consequences for consumption during retirement. We conduct an online experiment among 2,500 individuals representative of the adult German…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2023

    Saving regret and procrastination

    We define saving regret as the wish in hindsight to have saved more earlier in life. We measured saving regret and possible determinants in a survey of U.S. households in which respondents were aged 60-79. We…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-070 // 2022

    Households’ Financial Fragility During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

    I examine the financial fragility of German households during the second wave of COVID-19 infections in the winter of 2020/21 by analyzing the households’ ability to come up with EUR 2,000 within one month.…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-067 // 2022

    Global Payment Disruptions and Firm-Level Exports

    We exploit proprietary information on severed correspondent banking relationships — due to the stricter enforcement of financial crime regulation — to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade.…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)