Kumulative Dissertation, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2023

The thesis at hand pursues better understanding of the role of boundedly rational expectations, agents’ heterogeneity and heuristics-based decision making in the macro-financial context. Chapter 1 investigates how households’ participation in the stock market, coupled to the existence of a capital-constrained banking sector, affects the transmission of monetary policy to the economy. Chapter 2 investigates the implications of temporal aggregation for the design of monetary policy in a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework with boundedly rational agents. Finally, Chapter 3 aims at modelling bank runs in a behavioural macroeconomic context