Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

The path of output prior to the financial and economic crisis turned out to be not sustainable and lower than previously estimated in some European crisis countries. Specifically, the output gaps have been…

Overleveraging of the banking sector has been considered as one of the main causes of the 2007-09 financial crisis and the subsequent great recession. It was also of major concern for the subsequent BIS…

• Some Government Redistribution Measures Shown to Reduce Income Inequality
• Deployment of Fibre Optic Networks: Making Public Subsidies more Efficient
• Households Insured Against Flooding Take more Precautionary…

• German Expert Commission: Mixed Bag for the Progress of Energiewende
• Financial Crisis May Cause Partial Retreat of German Banks from International Business
• Municipalities With More Direct Democracy Achieve Greater…

• China’s Power on Rare Earth Market in Decline
• Direct Democracy and Taxation
• Failed Entrepreneurs Fail Again
• Germany’s ICT Sector Continues to Grow
• Q&A: Distributive Justice in Germany? Germany's Welfare State Fares…