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 ...
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 ...
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 ...