Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-49 // 2002

    Explaining the Level of Relative Investment Specialisation: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of EU Regions

    This paper analyses the level of relative specialisation in terms of gross fixed capital formation in EU regions. Larger market and regional sizes diminish; a higher unemployment rate, population density, the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-48 // 2002

    Why Are Asset Returns Predictable?

    Starting from an information process governed by a geometric Brownian motion we show that asset returns are predictable if the elasticity of the pricing kernel is not constant. Declining [Increasing] elasticity…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)