This thesis deals with demand and supply determinants of loan contract terms in small business lending. Chapter 2 presents results on loan maturity and is based on a cross-sectional dataset of German small business loans. I find a very robust positive and monotonic relation between risk and...

This thesis examines the relationship of monetary policy and investment in a theoretical framework in which monetary and real economic forces are intrinsically interlinked. The full shift from a money, real dichotomy in historical economic thought to the notion of money being an essential...