Economic policy uncertainty: A literature review

SA Al-Thaqeb, BG Algharabali - The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2019 - Elsevier
The significance of uncertainty in policies related to economic decisions is higher than ever
before in today's interconnected world. This study contributes to existing research by …

The pandemic and economic policy uncertainty

SA Al‐Thaqeb, BG Algharabali… - … Journal of Finance & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The events that occurred after the worldwide diffusion of COVID‐19 provide a real‐life
example of how uncertainty can severely affect the global economy. This paper reviews …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 and airline employment: Insights from historical uncertainty shocks to the industry

JB Sobieralski - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of uncertainty shocks on airline
employment in the light of the current global pandemic. The airline industry has faced many …

Economic policy uncertainty and financial stability–Is there a relation?

DHB Phan, BN Iyke, SS Sharma, Y Affandi - Economic Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on financial stability. Using
data for 23 countries over the period of 1996 to 2016, we show that the impact is negative …

[PDF][PDF] Economic policy uncertainty in China since 1949: The view from mainland newspapers

SJ Davis, D Liu, XS Sheng - Fourth Annual IMF-Atlanta Fed …, 2019 - stevenjdavis.com
We quantify economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in China since 1949, as filtered through the
lens of two leading mainland newspapers. Like Baker, Bloom and Davis (BBD), we use …

Economic policy uncertainty and cash holdings: Evidence from BRIC countries

E Demir, O Ersan - Emerging Markets Review, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on cash holding
decisions of firms in BRIC countries. Our focus is on the firms in BRIC countries, a …

Testing the efficacy of the economic policy uncertainty index on tourism demand in USMCA: Theory and evidence

C Işık, E Sirakaya-Turk, S Ongan - Tourism Economics, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The global economic outlook is more uncertain than ever before and sensitive to
uncertainties related to a variety of economic policies decisions of all stakeholders and …

Economic policy uncertainty and stock market volatility

L Liu, T Zhang - Finance Research Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the predictability of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) to stock
market volatility. Our in-sample evidence suggests that higher EPU leads to significant …

Determinants of foreign direct investment inflows: The role of economic policy uncertainty

NP Canh, NT Binh, SD Thanh, C Schinckus - International Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This article investigates the impacts of the domestic economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and
the World Uncertainty (WUI) on net foreign direct investment inflows (FDI) for 21 economies …

On the transmission mechanism of country-specific and international economic uncertainty spillovers: Evidence from a TVP-VAR connectedness decomposition …

D Gabauer, R Gupta - Economics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigate the internal and external categorical economic policy uncertainty (EPU)
spillovers between the US and Japan using a novel extension of the TVP-VAR …