This paper investigates how financial market imperfections and nominal rigidities interact. Based on new firm-level evidence for Germany, we document that financially constrained firms adjust prices more often than their unconstrained counterparts. In particular, financially constrained firms do...

This paper investigates how financial market imperfections and the frequency of price adjustment interact. Based on new firm-level evidence for Germany, we document that financially constrained firms adjust prices more often than their unconstrained counterparts, both upwards and downwards. We...

The current paper broadens the understanding for the role of uncertainty in the context of a macroeconomic environment. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks on indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area countries...

As is well known, one of the major shortcomings of the New Keynesian model (NKM) with Calvo-type price setting is the lack of a microeconomic foundation of its most important building block - price stickiness. In this paper I investigate the ability of a monetary Customer Markets model to...

In recent years the New Keynesian Model with price stickiness of the Calvo type has become the most widely used theoretical framework for addressing various normative issues such as how optimal monetary and fiscal policy should be conducted. However, the New Keynesian Model has been criticized...

This paper estimates a medium-scale open economy DSGE model for Germany and therest of the Euro Area (REA). The parameter estimates indicate that there is a modestdegree of structural heterogeneity between Germany and the rest of the Euro Area. Inparticular, (i) the private sector in Germany...

Nicht zuletzt nach Ausbruch der Covid-19-Pandemie stand die Stabilität des deutschen Bankensystems als integraler Bestandteil des nationalen Finanzsystems unter besonderer Beobachtung. Entscheidend für die Finanzstabilität ist die Frage, ob die Banken ausreichend gegen Stresseffekte...

The stability of the German banking system, in its capacity as an integral component of the country's financial system, has come under particular scrutiny, not least since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial stability hinges on whether banks are sufficiently resilient to stress...

Die Weltkonjunktur hat im laufenden Jahr weiter Tritt gefasst, unterstützt von expansiven Impulsen der Geldpolitik und der staatlichen Konjunkturprogramme. Nach Ländern und Regionen differenziert ist die Dynamik der Erholung allerdings recht unterschiedlich. So hat sich das vom ifo Institut...

Im Sommerhalbjahr wird die deutsche Konjunktur voraussichtlich eine Schwächephase durchlaufen. Darauf deutet das ifo Geschäftsklima hin, das sich im Mai und Juni merklich eingetrübt hat. Maßgeblich dafür ist die anhaltende Unsicherheit über den Fortgang der europäischen Schuldenkrise. Im...