This doctoral dissertation analyses the transmission of monetary policy. It applies a variety of empirical methods to study how conventional and unconventional monetary policy measures transmit to different macroeconomic and financial variables. The first article analyses the effect of monetary...

This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters on monetary policy and fiscal policy. All three papers concern the effects of monetary and fiscal policy in the presence of financial frictions. In the first paper this friction is a zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate, which...