Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2024

    September 2024

    • Schwindende Hoffnung auf eine baldige Besserung der wirtschaftlichen Lage
    • Eurozone: Eingetrübte Konjunkturlage und sinkende Erwartungen
    • USA: Pessimistische Konjunkturerwartungen und erwartete Zinssenkung
    • Ch…
  2. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2024

    August 2024

    • Stärkster Rückgang der Konjunkturerwartungen seit zwei Jahren
    • Eurozone: Einbruch der Konjunkturerwartungen bei stabiler Lage
    • USA: Schlechtere Lagebewertung überstrahlt pessimistischere Erwartungen
    • China:…
  3. ZEW policy brief No. 24-13 // 2024

    Towards a More Realistic View on the Market Potential of EU Securitizations

    Ongoing global trends like climate change require firms to invest in projects that support their transformation. In order to unlock the huge sums of private capital necessary for these investments, the…

  4. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2024

    Juli 2024

    • Konjunkturerwartungen sinken zum ersten Mal seit einem Jahr
    • Eurozone: Leichte Erholung bei weiterhin pessimistischem Ausblick
    • USA: Sinkende Inflationserwartungen befeuern Erwartung baldiger Zinssenkungen
    • Ch…
  5. ZEW policy brief No. 24-12 // 2024

    How Much Do Financial Analysts Disagree on the Future Path of the ECB’s Interest Rate?

    On 6 June 2024, the European Central Bank (ECB) lowered the main refinancing operations (MRO) rate from 4.5% to 4.25%. This decision followed a period of elevated interest rates intended to combat high inflation…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Testing for differences in survey-based density expectations: A compositional data approach

    We propose to treat survey-based density expectations as compositional data when testing either for heterogeneity in density forecasts across different groups of agents or for changes over time. Monte Carlo…

  7. Discussion and Working Paper // 2024

    Forceful or Persistent: How the ECB's New Inflation Target Affects Households' Inflation Expectations

    The ECB announced a new monetary policy strategy in July 2021. In contrast to the previous strategy of aiming at inflation close to, but below 2%, it now pursues a symmetric 2% inflation target over the medium…

  8. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2024

    Juni 2024

    • Lagebewertung und Konjunkturerwartungen stagnieren
    • Eurozone: Lagebewertung bleibt trotz Zinssenkung pessimistisch
    • USA: Sinkende Inflationsrate verstärkt Erwartung baldiger Zinssenkung
    • China: Erwartungen und…
  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-036 // 2024

    Framing Effects in Consumer Expectations Surveys

    In a randomized experiment embedded in a survey, I test the effects of variations in question wording and format on consumer response behavior and the corresponding inflation expectations. To this end, survey…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)