The large recession that followed the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09 triggered unprecedented monetary policy easing around the world. Most central banks in advanced economies deployed new instruments to affect credit conditions and to provide liquidity on a large scale after short-term...

Die Transmission zentralbankpolitischer Maßnahmen im Bezug auf die Bankkreditvergabe hat sich seit der Globalen Finanzkrise der Jahre 2007/2008 drastisch geändert. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich die vorliegende Dissertation vor allem mit der empirischen Messung der Kreditvergabe in...

During and after the Great Recession, the European Central Bank adopted unconventional monetary policies that are more or less uncontroversial in the literature. By contrast, its quantitative easing (QE) program that started in 2015 is highly disputed. The article evaluates the pros and cons of...

We study asymmetric inflation effects of both conventional and unconventional monetary policy in the euro area during the period of low nominal interest rates. We find that rate cuts are inflationary also during low interest rates. Positive quantitative easing surprises have a deflationary...