This dissertation was written by Christopher Weber during his time as a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. It was handed in at the department of Economics at the LMU Munich in July 2016. The goal of the thesis is to...

Die Arbeit stellt zunächst das Interventionsverhalten der Notenbanken seit 1973 und die zugrundeliegenden Eingriffsgründe dar. Daran schließt sich eine umfangreiche theoretische und empirische Analyse der Interventionswirkungen an. Zielsetzung der Studie ist es, die bereits vorliegenden...

The global financial crisis and the ensuing criticism of macroeconomics have inspired researchers to explore new modeling approaches. There are many new models that deliver improved estimates of the transmission of macroeconomic policies and aim to better integrate the financial sector in...