Die Transmission zentralbankpolitischer Maßnahmen im Bezug auf die Bankkreditvergabe hat sich seit der Globalen Finanzkrise der Jahre 2007/2008 drastisch geändert. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich die vorliegende Dissertation vor allem mit der empirischen Messung der Kreditvergabe in...

Die Transmission zentralbankpolitischer Maßnahmen im Bezug auf die Bankkreditvergabe hat sich seit der Globalen Finanzkrise der Jahre 2007/2008 drastisch geändert. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich die vorliegende Dissertation vor allem mit der empirischen Messung der Kreditvergabe in...

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This Paper studies the optimal monetary policy in the presence of uncertainty about the...

Most central banks perceive a trade-off between stabilizing inflation and stabilizing the gap between output and desired output. However, the standard new Keynesian framework implies no such trade-off. In that framework, stabilizing inflation is equivalent to stabilizing the welfare-relevant...

This paper examines the evolution of monetary policy in South Africa in 1994-2004 in terms of design, the operational framework, the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) understanding of monetary policy transmission and the transparency, credibility and predictability of monetary policy....

In this Paper we carry over a static version of a New Keynesian Macromodel a la Clarida Gali Gertler (1999) to a monetary union. We will show in particular that a harmonious functioning of a monetary union critically depends on the correlation of shocks that hit the currency area. Additionally a...

The optimal policy response to a low-probability extreme event is examined. A simple policy problem is solved for a sequence of different loss functions: quadratic, combined quadratic/absolute-deviation, absolute-deviation, combined quadratic/constant, and perfectionist. The Paper shows that,...