We construct a slope factor from changes in federal funds futures of different horizons. Slope predicts stock returns at the weekly frequency: faster monetary policy easing positively predicts excess returns. Investors can achieve increases in weekly Sharpe ratios of 20% conditioning on the...

Die Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank wird von zwei Seiten kritisiert. Während die eine Seite die geldpolitische Ausrichtung als zu expansiv ansieht, wird der EZB von der anderen Seite vorgeworfen, dass die gemessene Inflationsrate noch immer unterhalb des Inflationsziels liegt. Eine...

How does inflation affect the investment decisions of financially constrained firms in the presence of corporate taxation? Inflation interacts with corporate taxation via the deductibility of i) capital expenditures and ii) interest payments on debt. Through the first channel, inflation...

This paper revisits the equilibrium and welfare effects of long-run inflation in the presence of distortionary taxes and financial constraints. Expected inflation interacts with corporate taxation through the deductibility of i) capital expenditures at historical value and ii) interest payments...

I propose a new term structure model for euro area real and nominal interest rates which explicitly incorporates a time-varying lower bound for nominal interest rates. Results suggest that the lower bound is of importance in structural analyses implying time-varying impulse responses of yield...

I propose a new term structure model for euro area real and nominal interest rates which explicitly incorporates a time-varying lower bound for nominal interest rates. Results suggest that the lower bound is of importance in structural analyses implying time-varying impulse responses of yield...

This paper presents a model that pictures how inflation is determined in a decentralized market process where prices are set in both simultaneous and sequential contracts. Price setting is seen as a coordination game between the price setters of sequential contracts. An important property of the...

Part of the present inflation is caused by the breakdown of globalization, in particular supply chains, part is caused by the Corona Pandemic, in particular lockdowns, part is caused by the Ukrainian War, part is caused by European sanctions, and part - and not the smallest one - is caused by...

Lieferengpässe im Zuge der Covid-19-Pandemie und der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine haben dazu beigetragen, dass die Inflationsraten wieder angestiegen sind. Wir argumentieren, dass sich dadurch sechs strukturelle Faktoren verstärkt haben, warum die Inflation und auch höhere Zinsen nicht...

This paper presents selected results from a model-based assessment of the impact of unconventional monetary policies. The model is estimated on euro area data and features two types of agents, a financial sector, several real and nominal frictions as well as rational expectations. In our model...