Fabiani, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
Do financial intermediaries influence firms’ (real and financial) outcomes? Are there interactions with monetary and macroprudential policy? This thesis tackles those questions from multiple perspectives. ...
Höynck, Christian (Date of defense: 2021-01-07)
This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the role of sectoral heterogeneity on inflation dynamics and optimal monetary policy. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where firms are ...
Schlaepfer, Alain (Date of defense: 2016-06-10)
In the first chapter, I examine both theoretically and empirically how income uncertainty affects the effectiveness of monetary policy. I consider income risk from potential unemployment, and find that ...
Gülsen, Eda (Date of defense: 2021-03-25)
This thesis contributes to the empirical literature that analyses the link between banking, international finance and monetary policy. It studies several micro-level supervisory databases, each crucial ...
Diz, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2019-10-03)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. The first chapter investigates the redistributive role minimum wages can play over the cycle and the implied effects on macroeconomic stability. To ...
Rojas Zea, Youel (Date of defense: 2022-05-13)
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, using a series of identified monetary policy shocks for Peru, I show robust evidence of supply side mechanisms of monetary policy for ...
Pitschner, Stefan (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in macroeconomics and finance. In the first chapter, I use texts from corporate filings of US companies to investigate if liquidity shortages that occurred ...