Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-19 // 2004

    Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

    This paper presents and compares several time-series models for returns of broadbased stock indices. These models nest a nonlinear asymmetric GARCH(NGARCH) model as a special case. Some of these models are…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-16 // 2004

    Who Are the True Venture Capitalists in Germany?

    In this paper, we analyze the investment and divestment patterns of different types of venture capitalists. Using a data set embracing all venture-backed IPOs that occurred on Germany's Neuer Markt we…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-03 // 2004

    German Exchange Rate Exposure at DAX and Aggregate Level, International Trade, and the Role of Exchange Rate Adjustment Costs

    Non-technical Summary This study analyses the dollar exposure of large German companies, i.e. value change of companies associated with changes of the price of the US dollar, and the determinants of this…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-01 // 2004

    The Impact of EMU on Inflation Expectations

    This paper analyses the impact of the monetary regime change from the Bundesbank to the ECB in 1999 on inflation expectations. In the theoretical part, the Barro-Gordon model is used to derive the potential…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)