Projects of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2020 – 31.10.2021

    Foundation of the Mannheim Institute for Financial Education

    Financial Literacy plays a central role for individual financial well-being and inclusion. It can also play an important role for the stability of financial markets and the effectiveness of central bank…

  2. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2020

    Pension Dashboard for more transparency in old-age provision

    In the coalition agreement of 2018, the federal government set the goal to provide a pension information covering all three pillars of retirement income. This means that the public pension entitlements as well…

  3. Project // 01.01.2020 – 31.03.2021

    The distributional implications of tax-favoured retirement accounts: Evidence from German tax-return data

    Following pension reforms aiming to reduce the demographic burden on pay-as-you-go pension schemes, Germany and many other countries introduced substantial tax benefits to set incentives for third pillar…

  4. Project // 01.05.2019 – 31.03.2021

    Coming to terms with ambiguous asset dimensions: quality, beauty and uniqueness in the built environment

    In this project we will first train a computer vision model from ground up. The resulting machine learning model will be the first to be fully optimised for the built environment, offering an alternative…

  5. Project // 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2021

    Evonik-Specific Early Warning System: Monthly Updates (2017-2021)

    The objective of the project is to identify and construct forward-looking indicators in order to assess the developments in the markets of selected sectors and regularly deliver them to Evonik Industries AG…

  6. Project // 01.01.2013 – 31.03.2021

    China Economic Panel

    From 2013 to 2021 the Centre of European Economic Research (ZEW) and one of China’s leading universities, the Fudan University in Shanghai, conducted a monthly survey on the Chinese Economy. This “China…

  7. Project // 01.05.2011 – 01.01.2025

    Survey on the German Market for Real Estate Finance

    The German real estate finance index is based on a survey conducted by ZEW. In the first part of the survey, experts in the market for real estate finance are asked to evaluate current financing conditions as…

  8. Project // 01.01.2009 – 31.12.2020

    Business Cycle Tableaus

    Each month, macroeconomic forecasts from banks and research institutes for Germany and the Euro Area are compiled and presented.

  9. Project // 01.12.1991 – 31.12.2030

    ZEW Financial Market Survey

    The ZEW Financial Market Survey has been carried out on a monthly basis since December 1991. It reveals the financial market’s expectations on the development of important international economies. Currently these…