This paper studies the effect of bank competition on the optimal use of monetary and macroprudential policies. To this end, I develop a New Keynesian DSGE model with collateral constraints and an imperfect competitive banking sector. The results from the model demonstrate that the degree of...

I use loan-level data from the syndicated loan market in the U.S. to investigate how monetary policy affects banks' sensitivity to risk. Using loan-level data and banks' sensitivity to risk enables me to identify the risk-taking channel and disentangle it from other monetary channels. I show...

This article investigates how uncertainty impacts the effect of monetary policy surprises on stock returns. Using high-frequency US data, we demonstrate that stock markets respond more aggressively to monetary policy surprises during periods of high uncertainty. We also show that uncertainty...