Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    Capital Shortfalls in SSM Banks: How much progress has been made?

    On 26 October 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of the comprehensive assessment that comprised both an asset quality review (AQR)as well as a stress test. Banks that have shown capital…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    From Bad to Worse? Individuals in Financial Distress

    In this paper, we examine the behavior of individual consumers in financial distress. We provide a novel description of consumer delinquency and investigate whether or not consumers recover from delinquency. We…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    What Kinds of Bank-Client Relationships Matter in Reducing Loan Defaults and Why?

    The value of bank relationships is typically thought to arise from repeat lending. However, relationships can be of many kinds, e.g., they could be non-credit based marked by a simple savings or checking…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    Does the Lack of Financial Stability Impair the Transmission of Monetary Policy?

    We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposit and loan spreads in Europe over the January 2006 to June 2010 period. We find evidence consistent with an impaired transmission channel…

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2015

    Covenant Violations, Loan Contracting, and Default Risk of Bank Borrowers

    Are borrowers rewarded for repaying their loans? This paper investigates the consequences of covenant violations on subsequent loans to the same borrower using a hand-collected sample of US syndicated loans…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)