Economic policy uncertainty is proven to have an important effect on household consumption. However, the literature on …, is limited. In this paper, we propose two channels through which economic policy uncertainty affects household … consumption, the precautionary saving channel and the investment-employment channel. Then, we use the household survey data (China …

Does economic policy uncertainty affect household stockholding? To answer this question we create a novel measure of … household exposure to economic policy uncertainty news by combining survey information on the hours a household spends in … reading newspapers and the frequency of such news in the popular press during a household's pre-interview period. After …