This paper studies how quantitative easing (QE) affects household welfare across the wealth distribution. I build a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model with household portfolio choice, wage and price rigidities, endogenous unemployment, frictional financial intermediation, an...

Chapter 1. From Pandemics to the Unconventional Monetary Policy in EMs: The Case of Croatia -- Chapter 2. Financial Cycle Convergence: Evidence on Financial Cycles Synchronisation in the European Union and the European Economic and Monetary Union -- Chapter 3. Fiscal Response to the COVID-19...

Die Liberalisierung der globalen Finanzmärkte hat ihr Ziel verfehlt, für mehr Stabilität und Wirtschaftswachstum zu sorgen. Stattdessen folgt seit 30 Jahren eine Krise auf die andere. Jetzt werden etliche Bankenreformen diskutiert, um die Finanzmärkte krisensicherer zu machen. Dabei...

I estimate the comparative causal effects of monetary policy "leaning against the wind" (LAW) and macroprudential policy on bank-level lending and leverage by drawing on a single natural experiment. In 1920, when U.S. monetary policy was still decentralized, four Federal Reserve Banks...

Before the beginning of the crisis in 2007–8, regulation failed to cope with the complexities of modern finance and paid insufficient attention to systemic risk. Similarly, risk managers in financial institutions tended to focus on risks in their financial institutions, neglecting systemic...

In this paper, we aim to compare the anatomy of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) in the context of an emerging market economy. To this end, we develop a small open economy DSGE model with the Bernanke-Gertler-Gilchrist financial accelerator that features...

This review of the literature on the 2007–09 crisis discusses the precrisis conditions, the crisis triggers, the crisis events, the real effects, and the policy responses to the crisis. The precrisis conditions contributed to the housing price bubble and the subsequent price decline that led...

In the economic environment that has been emerging over the last couple of decades, it is more likely that the occasional build-up of financial imbalances, typically in the form of unsustainable credit and asset price booms, will occur against the background of low and stable inflation, posing a...

This paper employs a structural VAR framework with sign restrictions to estimate the effects of unconventional monetary policies of the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis, mainly in their effectiveness towards bank lending. Using a variable for newly issued credit instead of...