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Abstract This thesis consists of three empirical essays in evaluating the effects of monetary policy on macroeconomics variables in egypt using macro and firm level data. the motivations of this study are evolved around the issues of the effectiveness of interest rate, bank lending and balance sheet channels of monetary policy, and the identification of monetary policy at macro and firm-level. the first essay investigates the effects of monetary policy and foreign shocks on output, inflation and exchange rate in egypt.monetary policy shocks are identified using non-recursive SVAR identification scheme by allowing the central bank of egypt set the interest rate after observing the current level of world oil price, foreign interest rate, domestic output, inflation and exchange rate. |