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COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020
In this paper, we analyze the connectedness between the recent spread of COVID-19, oil price volatility shock, the stock market, geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty in the US within a time-frequency framework.
Arshian Sharif, C. Aloui, L. Yarovaya
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Financialization

Frontiers in Business, Economics and Management, 2023
The article selects listed companies in the non-financial and non real estate industries of China's A-share market from 2010 to 2020 as research samples to empirically examine the relationship between economic policy uncertainty faced by individual ...
Jiawen Xu
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Policy Uncertainty and Household Savings [PDF]

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012
Using German microdata and a quasi-natural experiment, we provide evidence on how households respond to an increase in uncertainty. We find that household saving increases significantly following the increase in political uncertainty observed in the run-up to the 1998 German general election.
GIAVAZZI, FRANCESCO, M. McMahon
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Risk, uncertainty and monetary policy [PDF]

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010
Abstract The VIX, the stock market option-based implied volatility, strongly co-moves with measures of the monetary policy stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility (“uncertainty”), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the ...
Lo Duca, Marco, Hoerova, Marie, Bekaert, Geert   +2 more
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Policy uncertainty and aggregate fluctuations [PDF]

Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018
SummaryThis paper estimates the impact on the US economy of four types of uncertainty about (i) government spending, (ii) tax changes, (iii) public debt, and (iv) monetary policy. Uncertainty about government debt has a large and persistent effect on output, consumption, investment, consumer confidence, and business confidence.
Mumtaz, H, Surico, P
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Lean against the wind: The effect of policy uncertainty on a firm's corporate social responsibility strategy

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023
S T R A C T We examine the effect of policy uncertainty on firms' strategy of corporate social responsibility (CSR). During uncertain times, firms strategically increase their commitment to CSR causes. Policy uncertainty is positively associated with CSR
Daoju Peng, Gönül Çolak, Jianfu Shen
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International spillovers of policy uncertainty [PDF]

Economics Letters, 2014
À l’aide de l’indice d’incertitude sur la politique économique établi par Baker et autres (2013), les auteurs estiment les retombées de l’incertitude au sujet de la politique économique dans le cas de six pays développés. Ils constatent que ces effets d’entraînement contribuent pour un peu plus du quart à la dynamique de l’incertitude sur la politique ...
Klößner, Stefan, Sekkel, Rodrigo
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Analysis of the Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Environmental Sustainability in Developed and Developing Economies

Sustainability, 2023
The literature on the impact of policy uncertainty on climate change has grown rapidly in recent years as policymakers and researchers have become increasingly concerned about the potential adverse effects of policy uncertainty on environmental ...
Huafang Huang, Sharafat Ali, Yasir Ahmed Solangi   +2 more
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Clean energy consumption, economic growth, and environmental sustainability: What is the role of economic policy uncertainty?

Renewable Energy, 2021
Undoubtedly, energy is indispensable to attain economic development; however, it also generates CO2 emissions, which are the dominant contributor to environmental deterioration and climate change.
Chaokai Xue, Muhammad Shahbaz, Zahoor Ahmed, M. Ahmad, Avik Sinha   +4 more
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Policy Uncertainty and Inventor Mobility

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy uncertainty. We find that policy uncertainty raises the rate of inventor emigration by a notable magnitude. With a one standard deviation in the policy uncertainty of the home country, relative to the possible destination countries, the ...
Bisset, Jordan, Czarnitzki, Dirk, Doherr, Thorsten   +2 more
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