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FOMC policy preferences and economic policy uncertainty
Economics Letters, 2021Abstract This paper studies the relationship between the individual monetary policy preferences of Federal Open Market Committee meeting participants and the private sector’s economic policy uncertainty. We find that an increase in economic policy uncertainty is associated with a preference for monetary policy easing, and this effect is in addition ...
Michael A. Ellis, Dandan Liu
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Household Inflation Uncertainty
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016AbstractHow does uncertainty about economic policy translate into uncertainty about macroeconomic outcomes, in particular inflation? New measures of consumer inflation uncertainty are compared to the economic and monetary policy uncertainty indices of [Baker, S., N. Bloom, and S. Davis. 2016. “Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty.”
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Insurance and economic policy uncertainty
Research in International Business and Finance, 2020Abstract Just as the world has witnessed the increased importance of the insurance sector over the past few decades, it has also witnessed a sharp rise in risks and uncertainties. Surprisingly, studies analyzing the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and the insurance sector are almost non-existent. Another major limitation of insurance
Balcilar, Mehmet +3 more
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Economic Policy Uncertainty, Monetary Policy Uncertainty, and Bank Earnings Opacity
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018Using a sample of U.S. banks and indices for economic policy uncertainty and monetary policy uncertainty developed by Baker et al. (2016), we investigate whether these two sources of policy uncertainty affect bank earnings opacity. When economic and monetary policies are relatively uncertain, it is easier for bank managers to distort financial ...
Justin Y. Jin +3 more
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Economic Policy Uncertainty, Political Uncertainty and the Greek Economic Crisis
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018We use textual analysis to construct an index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) for Greece from 1/1998 to 12/2017, similar to other international EPU indices. We also construct indices of political uncertainty (POLU) and economic uncertainty (EU), plus EPU sub-indices related to fiscal policy (EPUF), monetary policy (EPUM), banking (EPUB), currency ...
Gikas A. Hardouvelis +3 more
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Economic policy uncertainty and unconventional monetary policy
The Manchester School, 2022AbstractIn this study, the US daily economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index is employed to examine how EPU changes because of the implementation of and exit from the unconventional monetary policy adopted by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The analysis suggests that forward guidance lowers the volatility of EPU.
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Economic policy uncertainty and bank dividend policy
International Review of Economics, 2020Does economic policy uncertainty affect bank dividend policy? Using a large sample of US bank holding companies from 2000:Q1 to 2015:Q4, this study documents banks’ decrease in dividend payouts, as well as stock repurchases due to increased precautionary behaviors during periods of high uncertainty.
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Dividends and economic policy uncertainty: International evidence
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018We provide the first international evidence on the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on dividend policy. Using data from 19 countries, we find that a high level of EPU is positively associated with dividend payout. This evidence is robust to using alternative dividend payout measures, to controlling for other sources of uncertainty, and to ...
Najah Attig +3 more
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Economic policy uncertainty and cryptocurrencies
Eurasian Economic ReviewThe paper focuses on the relationship between cryptocurrencies and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) shocks by adopting robust econometric techniques. Results on monthly data from 2016 to 2022 confirm that the volumes of cryptos are stationary, and the short- and long-run impacts of uncertainty shocks are significantly positive, and, in most cases ...
Chiara Oldani +2 more
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Twitter-based Chinese economic policy uncertainty
Finance Research Letters, 2022Kiryoung Lee, Eunseon Choi, Minki Kim
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