Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW policy brief No. 25-04 // 2025

    Financing the Green Transition: The Role of Private Capital

    The greening of the European economy will require large amounts of capital to flow into green projects. As the public sector alone will not be able to achieve this, European capital markets and the European…

  2. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2025

    Februar 2025

    • Aussichten auf Erholung im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl
    • Eurozone: Wirtschaftsstimmung verbessert sich
    • USA: Inflationssorgen nehmen zu
    • China: Stabilisierung der Lageeinschätzung
    • Konjunkturaufschwung wird sich…
  3. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2025

    Januar 2025

    • Zweites Rezessionsjahr in Folge lässt Konjunkturerwartungen sinken
    • Eurozone: Steigende Inflationserwartungen bei skeptischen Zinserwartungen
    • USA: Stabilität trotz politischer Unsicherheit
    • China:…
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-085 // 2024

    Crisis? What Crisis? Bank Stability, Financial Development and Propaganda

    How does government control over mass media affect banking system? Our theoretical model predicts that if the media are biased, depositors are less likely to run on their bank, but also less likely to deposit…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-083 // 2024

    Beyond Knowledge: Confidence and the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy

    Women are less likely to correctly answer the “Big-3” financial literacy questions, and a substantial share of the gap reflects women’s lower confidence. In our experiment, women are more likely to choose “do…

  6. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2024

    Dezember 2024

    • Neuwahlen und EZB-Geldpolitik lassen Konjunkturerwartungen steigen
    • Eurozone: Leichter Optimismus trotz anhaltender Unsicherheiten
    • USA: US-Konjunktur bleibt robust
    • China: Erwartete Konjunkturstabilisierung
  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-082 // 2024

    Forceful or Persistent: How the ECB’s New Inflation Target Affects Households’ Inflation Expectations

    We study how households adjust their medium-term inflation expectations under the new ECB inflation targeting strategy. Survey respondents make little difference between the previous strategy of targeting…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)