While there is a general agreement on the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus, there is no consensus on which stimulus is better. To address this concern, this paper uses a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model to propose a fiscal stimulus that Botswana can adopt given the slowing...

This study is the first attempt to scrutinize the causal relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and innovation in the case of China, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration approach of innovation accounting for causality analysis. The empirical...

Global tensions and uncertainty in economic policy can cause structural change and disruption in the volatile sector of the economy. This study investigates the effects of geopolitical risk on bank stability and the role of economic policy uncertainty in this relationship in BRICS countries. We...

The agricultural sector has experienced increased haphazard policy interventions and has been exposed to different policy uncertainties. However, relatively little empirical research has been done on how economic policy uncertainties (EPU) affect agricultural exports. Thus, this paper explores...

This study investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on foreign remittances and whether it affects them symmetrically or asymmetrically. The ARDL model is employed to examine the short-run and long-run symmetric impact of EPU on foreign remittances, while the NARDL model is...

Social accounting matrix (SAM) is the linkage bridge between economic data and policy analysis in the general equilibrium models. While the empirical SAM is built upon economic data from the system of national accounts, the theoretical SAM is built upon the relation between economic actors in...

This study examines the joint effects of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the green activities (GAs) of Vietnamese listed companies from 2010 to 2022. CPU and EPU are measured by standardizing the search volume index of relevant keywords using data from...