Monetary policy leaves a fiscal footprint. In some circumstances, relieving the fiscal burden becomes the main goal of policy, and inflation control is subordinate. This article notes that the same is true of macroprudential policy, and it characterizes the size and sign of its fiscal footprint,...

In this paper, the focus lies on the way the German government spends, how it spends and what the connection between finance ministry and central bank is. The institutions involved in the process are identified and discussed. As a member of the Eurozone, Germany's national central bank is not...

Recent work on financial frictions in New Keynesian models suggest that there is a sizable spread between the risk-less interest rate and the borrowing rate. We analyze the optimal policy mix of monetary and fiscal authorities in a currency union with a country-specific credit spread by...

Die Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Aufsätzen im Bereich der Makroökonomie. Jeder Aufsatz behandelt ein unterschiedliches Thema, und zwar (i) die Beeinflussung des Produktionspotenzials durch die Produktionslücke, (ii) Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und Fähigkeitsverluste sowie (iii)...