nominal interest rate), in a general-equilibrium model of asset pricing and risk sharing with endogenous collateral … constraints of the kind proposed by Geanakoplos (1997). The existence of collateral constraints allows our model to capture the …-bank purchases raise the price of the asset, owing to binding collateral constraints, the effects need not be the ones commonly …

nominal interest rate), in a general-equilibrium model of asset pricing and risk sharing with endogenous collateral … constraints of the kind proposed by Geanakoplos (1997). The existence of collateral constraints allows our model to capture the …-bank purchases raise the price of the asset, owing to binding collateral constraints, the effects need not be the ones commonly …

as the amount and the type of assets that are accepted as collateral for money. When the policy rate is sufficiently low …

Munich in July 2016. The goal of the thesis is to establish the configuration of collateral policy as a tool of central bank … policies in pursuit of different objectives, and to present collateral policies in practice, as well as impact and effects of … collateral policy. The thesis consists of three parts and nine chapters. The first part discusses the role of collateral in …