Even though the sector of Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFI) or shadow banks represent a large part of the contemporary financial system, these institutions received almost no attention in macroeconomic studies so far. Their presence has significant influence on the conduct of monetary...

Using a DSGE framework, we discuss the optimal design of monetary policy for an economy where both retail banks and shadow banks serve as financial intermediaries. We get the following results. During crises times, a standard Taylor rule fails to reach sufficient stimulus. Direct asset purchases...

At the forefront of macroeconomic research on the causes of the Great Financial Cri- sis (GFC) was and still is the usage of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. To capture the nonlinearities of the GFC, these models were enriched with a variety of financial frictions. This...

Die 40. Auflage des gut benutzten Klassikers ist in Umfang und vor allem im Preis wesentlich erweitert (zuletzt BA 10/93). Teile des Buches wurden völlig neu konzipiert, um den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der nationalen und internationalen Finanzwirtschaft Rechnung zu tragen. Gleiches gilt...