Publications of the Research Unit Pensions and Sustainable Financial Markets

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-082 // 2016

    The House Price-Vacancy Curve

    Individual sales prices and local vacancy rates in the housing market pose a natural analogy to the wage curve, a popular concept in labor economics that describes how individual wages decrease with higher local…

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2016

    European banking supervision: the first eighteen months

    European banking supervision, also known as the Single Supervisory Mechanism, is the first and arguably the main component of European banking union. In late 2014, the European Central Bank became the…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    Capital Markets Union in Europe: Why Other Unions Must Lead the Way

    Capital Markets Union in Europe with fully integrated capital markets across member countries can only work when the status of member country sovereign bonds as risk-free assets is restored. Banking Union and…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    Lender of Last Resort versus Buyer of Last Resort – The Impact of the European Central Bank Actions on the Bank-Sovereign Nexus

    In summer 2011, elevated sovereign risk in Eurozone peripheral countries increased the solvency risk of Eurozone banks, precipitating a run on their short-term debt. We assess the effectiveness of different…

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    Wall Street Crosses Memory Lane: How Witnessed Returns Affect Professionals' Expected Returns

    Witnessing stock-market history in the making creates a vivid story, but does not provide valuable information. However, finance professionals extrapolate from personally witnessed returns, which we show by…

  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    Capital Shortfalls of European Banks since the Start of the Banking Union

    Since the start of the Banking Union in November 2014, European banks lost nearly half their market capitalization. Important risks in bank balance sheets are still unaccounted for requiring an even larger…

  7. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    Introducing the “Leverage Ratio” in Assessing the Capital Adequacy of European Banks

    The European Banking Authority (EBA) disclosed the effect of losses in a stress test on bank capital ratios on 29 July 2016. We assess the capital adequacy of these banks based on these disclosures and using two…

Further Publications

ZEW Financial Market Survey

German Real Estate Finance Index (DIFI Report)