Dieses aktuelle Lehrbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre, das mit vielen aktuellen Fallstudien punktet und Studierende nicht nur in die klassischen Theorien der Marktmechanismen einführt, sondern auch mit neuen Konzepten und Ansätzen, wie z.B. der Spieltheorie, vertraut macht, darf in keinem gut...

Uncertainty appears to have both a short-run and a long-run component, which we measure using firm and macro implied volatility data from options of 30 days to 10 years duration. We ask what may be driving uncertainty over these different time horizons, finding that oil price volatility is...

We show how real and financial frictions amplify the impact of uncertainty shocks. We build a model with real frictions, and find adding financial frictions roughly doubles the impact of uncertainty shocks. Higher uncertainty alongside financial frictions induces the standard real-options...

We model policy reform as a way to affect the stochastic process of relative returns that firms face when switching from old to new activities. This stochastic process has an Ito process component that is noncontrollable and policy reforms result in jumps in relative returns that arrive...