Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-123 // 2014

    What Drives the Demand of Monetary Financial Institutions for Domestic Government Bonds? - Empirical Evidence on the Impact of Basel II and Basel III

    This paper examines the treatment of sovereign debt exposure within the Basel framework and measures the impact of bank regulation on the demand of Monetary Financial Institutions (MFI) for marketable sovereign…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-110 // 2014

    Overleveraging, Financial Fragility and the Banking-Macro Link: Theory and Empirical Evidence

    We investigate consequences of overleveraging and financial sector stress on real economic activities. When banks become vulnerable, due to high leveraging, and there is a strong feedback between the real and…

  3. ZEWnews English edition // 2014

    11/12 - 2014

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-100 // 2014

    The Effects of Corporate and Country Sustainability Characteristics on the Cost of Debt: An International Investigation

    We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into 470 loan agreements signed between 2005 and 2012 with borrowers based on 28 different…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)