Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEWnews English edition // 2009

    No. 4 - 2009

    • Patent Applications Facilitate Access to Venture Capital for Start-Up Companies
    • Experts Favour Modification of the Clean Development Mechanism
    • Some German Automobile Brands 20 to 33 Percent More Valuable than…
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-055 // 2009

    Venture Capital and Internationalization

    In the period 2000-2008, more than one third of venture capital-backed companies worldwide received financing from venture capitalists that were not located in the same country as these companies. This paper…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-054 // 2009

    Testing the Predictability and Efficiency of Securitized Real Estate Markets

    Since the early 1970s and the seminal papers of Fama (1965, 1970), the efficient market hypothesis and its validity for several asset markets have been the topic of an uncountable number of publications in…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-045 // 2009

    The European Commission and EUA Prices: A High-Frequency Analysis of the EC's Decisions on Second NAPs

    This paper investigates price formation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The aim of the paper is to know what is happening to the European Union Allowance (EUA) price, when new…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-042 // 2009

    Higher-Order Beliefs Among Professional Stock Market Forecasters: Some First Empirical Tests

    A sizeable literature reports that financial market analysts and forecasters herd for reputational reasons (See e.g. Devenow and Welch (1996) and Hirshleifer and Teoh (2003) for surveys). As an example, Lamont…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)