This doctoral dissertation analyses the transmission of monetary policy. It applies a variety of empirical methods to study how conventional and unconventional monetary policy measures transmit to different macroeconomic and financial variables. The first article analyses the effect of monetary...

The fact that human economic behaviour has a significant irrational element - one that is simultaneously hard-to-explain and highly predictable - has fascinated economists for decades from Fechner, 1860 to Shiller, 2005 and beyond. In this dissertation, I investigate the field from various...

Trotz jahrzehntelanger Forschung zur Gültigkeit der Hypothese informationseffizienter Kapitalmärkte (EMH) sind wesentliche damit verbundene Fragestellungen noch immer ungeklärt. Eine ist diejenige nach der Existenz und der Erklärung von zeitvariablen Überrenditen ("Time Varying Excess...