Cover; Zum Inhalt_Autor; Titel; Vorwort; Inhaltsübersicht; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Kapitel 1 Geld, Zins und Banken; 1.1 Theoretische Grundlagen; 1.1.1 Die Funktionen des Geldes: Zahlungsmittel aus informationstheoretischer Sicht; 1.1.2 Traditionelle Strategien zur Wahrung des Geldwertes:...

The paper models the interaction between risk taking in the financial sector and central bank policy. It shows that in the absence of central bank intervention, the incentive of financial intermediaries to free ride on liquidity in good states may result in excessively low liquidity in bad...

We study the transmission of monetary policy shocks in a model in which realistic heterogeneity in price rigidity interacts with heterogeneity in sectoral size and input-output linkages, and derive conditions under which these heterogeneities generate large real effects. Empirically,...