German open end real estate funds are internationally the only exceptionwhich have been for almost 50 years very successful. Since 2004, the whole sectorsuffers a crisis which is very close, if not already identical, to a bank run.Both phenomenon seek an explanation. The ongoing crisis let to...

Round numbers affect behavior in various domains, e.g., as prominent thresholds or focal points in bargaining. In line with earlier findings, residential real estate transactions in Germany cluster at round-number prices, but there are also interesting (presumably cultural) differences. We...

Round numbers affect behavior in various domains, e.g., as prominent thresholds or focal points in bargaining. In line with earlier findings, residential real estate transactions in Germany cluster at round-number prices, but there are also interesting (presumably cultural) differences. We...

The European Commission has been working to promote reform and modernisation ofrestrictive regulation in the professional services area since 2002. In a first stepresearch was carried out which included an independent study of professionalregulation by the Institute for Advanced Studies in...

The components of GDP (residential investment, durables, nondurables, equipment and software, and business structures) display a pronounced lead-lag structure. We investigate the implications of this lead-lag structure for the cross-section of asset returns. We find that the leading GDP...

Both banks and open end real estate funds effectuate liquidity transformation in large amounts and high scales. Because of this similarity the latter should be analyzed using the same methodologies as usually applied for banks. We show that the work in the tradition of Diamond and Dybvig (1983),...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht für den Zeitraum Februar 1973 bis Dezember 2003 den Einfluss sechs makroökonomischer Variablen auf die Risikoprämien von Bankaktien in Deutschland. Besondere Bedeutung kommt der getrennten Analyse von Universal- und Hypothekenbanken zu. Die...