The purpose of this thesis is to argue that the core of a monetary economy is a network of triangular contracts between banks, firms, workers and capital goods suppliers. Not only does this network give rise to the creation and valuation of money but it is the organising feature of modern...

Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit den makroökonomischen Konsequenzen der Annahme heterogener Firmen. Die geldpolitischen Implikationen stehen dabei im Vordergrund. In den ersten beiden, theoretisch ausgerichteten Kapiteln liegt der Fokus auf der Tatsache, dass Firmen unterschiedlich...

The thesis analyzes monetary and labor policies under different market frictions. In the first part several versions of a microfounded dynamic general equilibrium model with monopolistic competitors in the product and/or labor market are derived and simulated. First of all, the monetary...

Die Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Aufsätzen im Bereich der Makroökonomie. Jeder Aufsatz behandelt ein unterschiedliches Thema, und zwar (i) die Beeinflussung des Produktionspotenzials durch die Produktionslücke, (ii) Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und Fähigkeitsverluste sowie (iii)...

This thesis was written by Jakob Eberl while having been a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2016. The...

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The objective of this research is to test the hypothesis that pricing conduct in SouthAfrica, revealed by studies of pricing microdata, can be shown to have an impact on themodeling and conduct of monetary policy. In order to discern stylised facts about pricingconduct in South Africa, use is...