TY - UNPD A1 - Bannier, Christina E. A1 - Fecht, Falko A1 - Tyrell, Marcel T1 - Open-end real estate funds in Germany : genesis and crisis T2 - Universität Frankfurt am Main. Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften: [Working paper series / Finance and accounting] Working paper series, Finance & Accounting ; No. 165 N2 - Open-end real estate funds are of particular importance in the German bankdominated 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 open-end 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 recommendation that have been raised. T3 - Working paper series / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften : Finance & Accounting - 165 Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2636 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-27687 IS - Version May 2006 PB - Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschaftswiss. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -