TY - UNPD A1 - Bannier, Christina E. A1 - Fecht, Falko A1 - Tyrell, Marcel T1 - Open-end real estate funds in Germany : genesis and crisis T2 - Deutsche Bundesbank: [Discussion paper / 2] Discussion paper : Ser. 2, Banking and financial studies ; No. 2007,04 N2 - Open-end real estate funds are of particular importance in the German bank-dominated financial system. However, recently the German open-end fund industry came under severe distress which triggered a broad discussion of required regulatory interventions. This paper gives a detailed description of the institutional structure of these funds and of the events that led to the crisis. Furthermore, it applies recent banking theory to openend real estate funds in order to understand why the open-end fund structure was so prevalent in Germany. Based on these theoretical insights we evaluate the various policy recommendations that have been raised. KW - Open-End Funds KW - Liquidity Transformation KW - Liquidity Crisis KW - Risk Sharing Y1 - 2007 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35062 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-350627 UR - http://www.bundesbank.de SN - 978-3-86558-268-3 SN - 978-3-86558-269-0 PB - Deutsche Bundesbank CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -