Among the ecosystem of decentralized financial services, yield farming is a complex
investment strategy with hidden downside risks providing opportunities for passively earning …

Can salient attributes distort high-stakes investment decisions? Using a rich dataset of
complex retail securities, I show banks add non-standard (fine-print) conditions to artificially …

We study the impact of monetary policy on household finance in open economies. We
examine the response of retail investors to a policy shock which led to (i) a sharp …

We document a housing portfolio channel of quantitative easing (QE) transmission
exploiting household-level and regional variation in German data. We show that QE induces …

This dissertation is about forces which persistently push financial variables away from
theirsteady state. In chapter one, we show that a steady state is not necessary in …

Granular holdings data have emerged as a crucial resource for economic and financial
research. Recently, the Securities Holdings Statistics (SHS), collected by the European …