Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-046 // 2006

    Market Discipline and the Use of Government Bonds as Collateral in the EMU

    The confidence that financial markets are able to discipline the debt behaviour of governments is not very high. Therefore, the Stability and Growth Pact has been implemented as an institutional constraint to…

  2. ZEWnews English edition // 2006

    No. 3 - 2006

    • New ZEW DocNet Qualifies Talented Young Researchers
    • Fiscal Policy in the new EU States: Baltic States and Slovenia Frontrunners
    • Cultural Stumbling Blocks to the Internationalisation of Innovations
    • Wage Inequality…
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-043 // 2006

    Evaluating Conditional Asset Pricing Models for the German Stock Market

    We study the performance of conditional asset pricing models in explaining the German cross-section of stock returns. Our test assets are portfolios sorted by size and book-to-market as in the paper by Fama and…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-041 // 2006

    What Determines the Inclusion in a Sustainability Stock Index? A Panel Data Analysis for European Companies

    This paper examines the determinants of the inclusion of European companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index. In doing so, the paper contributes to the…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-035 // 2006

    China's Exchange Rate Appreciation in the Light of the Earlier Japanese Experience

    For creditor countries on the periphery of the dollar standard such as China with current account surpluses, foreign mercantile pressure to appreciate their currencies and become more flexible is misplaced.…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)