the effects of both tax base and tax rate uncertainty, the investment's tax payment is modelled as a stochastic process …. Increased tax uncertainty has an ambiguous impact on investment timing. The view that tax uncertainty depresses real investment …Tax legislation, fiscal authorities, and tax courts create tax uncertainty by frequent tax reforms and various …

The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief … shows that macroeconomic risk acts as an important deterrent to investments. …

This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index …

We estimate a three-variate VAR using proxies of global financial uncertainty, the global financial cycle, and world … industrial production to simulate the effects of the jump in financial uncertainty observed in correspondence of the Covid-19 … outbreak. We predict the cumulative loss in world output one year after the uncertainty shock due to Covid-19 to be about 14% …

first-order approximated solution built by perturbation methods accounts for risk. We show that risk matters economically in … a real business cycle (RBC) model with habit formation and capital adjustment costs and that neglecting risk leads to …

of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to …-earthquake control) on the effect of natural disasters on time and risk preferences. We find unambiguous effects towards more risk …

This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by …-level uncertainty is characterized by a pecking order: the announcement of a domestic takeover leads to a reduction in the uncertainty … - engender a positive response in acquirers' volatility. Our results suggest that acquisitions affect uncertainty because they …

) the comparison of the degree of risk aversion for consumption and for LTC expenditures, and (iii) the income level of …

commodity markets on stock market realized volatility. Specifically, Economic Policy Uncertainty is shown to be one of the main …-augmented asymmetric power extension. It focuses on economic factors that exacerbate stock market volatility and represent major threats to … forecasting accuracy significantly. Higher uncertainty is found to increase the leverage and macro effects from credit and …

We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that … make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk … to rationalize with incentive theories of bonus pay - but support an important risk sharing motive. In particular …