Das zweite Kapitel trägt den Titel "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction in a World with Heterogeneous Expectations."' Ein weiteres mal ist der Untersuchungsgegenstand die Fähigkeit einer Zentralbank, mittels Zinspolitik Preisstabilität in einer Ökonomie mit heterogenen Erwartungen...

Das dritte Kapitel trägt den Titel "Anticipation, Learning and Welfare: the Case of Distortionary Taxation." Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Zusammenarbeit mit Shoujian Zhang. Im Fokus der Untersuchung stehen antizipierte Steuerreformen. Die Individuen in der Ökonomie haben nicht-rationale...

Die vorliegende kumulative Dissertation umfasst drei Essays, welche sich mit Fragestellungen der Geld- und Fiskalpolitik beschäftigen. Jeder Essay stellt ein Kapitel der Dissertation dar. Das erste Kapitel trägt den Titel "Heterogeneous Expectations and the Merit of Monetary Policy Inertia."...

This paper analyzes how the formation of expectations constrains monetary and fiscal policy design. Economic agents have imperfect knowledge about the economic environment and the policy regime in place. Households and firms learn about the policy regime using historical data. Regime uncertainty...

This paper develops a theory of endogenously (non-)Ricardian beliefs. That is, whether Ricardian Equivalence holds in an equilibrium depends on endogenous private sector beliefs. The novelty here is a restricted perceptions viewpoint: in complex forecasting environments, agents forecast...

This study examines the relationship between bond fund flows, stock market returns and financial policies in developed and developing economies. The findings suggest a bidirectional (negative) relationship between bond flows and market returns in the presence of fiscal and monetary policy for...

Market participants are generally in agreement that the coronavirus pandemic will have a severe impact on the European economy, but it is difficult to predict the length and extent of the pandemic’s effects. However, using the yield curves of corporate bonds, we can reach some preliminary...

We analyze fiscal consolidations using a New Keynesian model where agents have heterogeneous expectations and are uncertain about the composition of consolidations. We look at spending-based and tax-based consolidations and analyze their effects separately. We find that the effects of...