We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local … newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty … uncertainty much more than the average election. The COVID-19 pandemic drove huge increases in policy uncertainty and unemployment …

production and consumer price index under the high and low levels of uncertainty. The full sample results from our analysis … periods of high economic uncertainty. Furthermore, this approach also allows us to uncover asymmetric effects of economic … policy uncertainty and lending rate on macroeconomic indicators. The impacts of interest rate and domestic and foreign (US …

We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …

Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate …

uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households …, while accounting for the level of transfers from family abroad. We find that both the level and the uncertainty of … income hypothesis and theories of precautionary saving, a one standard deviation increase in the uncertainty of remittance …

surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent papers have discussed the role of "uncertainty" and its … measurement in influencing economic decisions. They attempt to measure uncertainty by indexes of volatility of the stock market …, GDP, forecaster disagreement, mentions of uncertainty in news media, and the dispersion of productivity shocks to firms …

of uncertainty and of rationing efficiency. We show that regulatory uncertainty does not diminish the rationale for … intervention, but may require a low minimum wage that may not bind. With expected earnings-maximization, greater uncertainty widens …

short-time window to test the impact of deteriorating expectations and uncertainty on firms' R&D choices. Our results show a … critically shape firms' reactions to the general uncertainty. Two main patterns emerge from our analysis. On the one hand, there … persistence of R&D choices after uncertainty shocks. …

We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at … nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one …-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level uncertainty at a one-year forecast horizon doubled at the onset of the …