Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

• Put to the Test: Opposition Party Proposals for Reforming the German Tax System
• Experiment on the Patience of Child and Mother
• Questions & Answers: Why Does Germany Fail to Attract Foreign Skilled Workers?
• How to…

The present study compares exchange rate expectations of "chartists" and "fundamentalists". "Chartists" are those financial market participants who base their forecasts and actions on past price movements of…

• Environmentally Friendly Process Innovations Encourage Hiring of New Employees
• Falling Profit Margins in E-commerce as Product Life Cycles Lengthen
• Business Tax Rates Remain Low, Despite the Crisis
• In-house…

The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. Compared to domestic investments, cross-border investments…

Member countries of a currency union like the euro area have absorbed asymmetric shocks in ways that are inconsistent with a common nominal anchor. Based on a reformulation of the gravity model that allows for…