Specific research topics within this cluster include
- Empirical analysis of property and capital markets
- Models for quantifying credit default risks and for credit portfolio management
- Property and capital market cycles
- Forms of securitisation of real estate investments
- Role of property in a mixed-asset portfolio
- Construction of property indices
- Reverse mortgages
The chairs of Prof. Hamerle, Prof. Schäfers, Prof. Schulte and Prof. Sebastian (cluster spokesperson), who have written numerous publications on the above-mentioned topics in national and international journals, are particularly involved in the cluster.
The following courses can be assigned to this cluster:
- Empirical capital market research and portfolio management
- Credit risk management
- Property banking
- Property financing
- Property investment
The participants in the cluster work together with practitioners within the framework of cooperation and consulting as well as in the field of training and continuing education, among other things:
- Development and validation of rating procedures for property financing in cooperation with the Association of German Banks (BdB)
- Cooperation with the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, in the Leibniz Association's "Real Estate and Capital Markets" project
- Co-operation with the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), Amsterdam
- Co-operation with the German Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management (DVFA)
- Expert opinion on the property valuation of a DAX company