Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

This paper examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty on the performance of the real estate sector proxied by Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) returns in the United States. Using monthly REIT index data and the monthly changes in a newly constructed index of economic policy...

This study employs the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis to empirically report the impulse response functions of economic policy certainty and financial stress. A causality test of these two variables is also performed. The analysis of the monthly changes in the economic policy uncertainty...

This study examines if firms whose training programs ranked as the best ones in the United States can withstand the changes in economic policy uncertainty. The regression analysis of monthly changes in economic policy uncertainty index, monthly returns on the CRSP value-weighted index, and...

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty in the United States on stock market performance in the European Union, Croatia, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. The analyses of monthly returns on the major stock market indices in these countries from 1985:2 to...

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty in the United States on stock market performance in Canada and Mexico. Using monthly returns of the Canada S&P/TSX-300 Total Return Index from 1985:2 to 2012:5 and Mexico SE Total Return Index from 1988:1 to 2012:5, this study...