The financial crisis proved strikingly that stabilizing the price level is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to ensure macroeconomic stability. The obvious candidate for addressing systemic risk is macroprudential policy. In this paper we study the optimal monetary and macroprudential...

Der Prozess der Digitalisierung führt zunehmend zu einer Verdrängung der Nachfrage nach Bargeld und zu einer Privatisierung des Zahlungsverkehrs. Eine in jüngerer Zeit viel diskutierte Antwort der Zentralbanken ist das digitale Zentralbankgeld (Konto für Jedermann bei der Zentralbank)....

This paper shows that a different communication style of the European Central Bank (ECB) affects stock prices differently. A break in the ECB's communication from 2016 onwards makes it necessary to adjust the identification of monetary policy surprises in the euro area. By modifying the...

Using a DSGE framework, we discuss the optimal design of monetary policy for an economy where both retail banks and shadow banks serve as financial intermediaries. We get the following results. During crises times, a standard Taylor rule fails to reach sufficient stimulus. Direct asset purchases...

The cross-country interbank market in the euro area was a crucial transmission channel of financial stress. By using a two-country DSGE model of a financially heterogeneous monetary union where banks in one country lend funds to their foreign counterparts, I examine its role as shock ampli.er...

We study the transmission of monetary policy in the presence of heterogeneous households and examine the implications when the share of constrained households is a function of monetary policy. We build an analytically tractable heterogeneous agent New Keynesian model (THANK) with an endogenous...

Trotz rund sechs Jahren intensiver Forschung hat bisher keine Zentralbank der Industrienationen digitales Zentralbankgeld (Central Bank Digital Currency, CBDC) eingeführt. In diesem Artikel befassen wir uns mit den Gründen. Wir geben einen kurzen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der...

This paper studies the interaction of international shadow banking with monetary and macroprudential policy in a two-country currency union DSGE model. We find evidence that cross-country financial integration through the shadow banking system is a source of financial contagion in response to...

This paper shows that uncertainty has an impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy shocks. As uncertainty increases, so does the risk that a restrictive forward guidance shock will increase rather than decrease stock prices. This effect can be seen not only in high-frequency variables, but...

This paper studies the effectiveness of micro- and macroprudential policy tools in the euro area. The established empirical literature on macroprudential policy generally considers panel estimations that suffer from two estimation biases, i.e., a selection bias and a time bias. We control for...