This paper aims to measure the level of economic and financial uncertainty in Turkey. More specifically, it constructs a search-based ‘Turkish Economic and Financial Uncertainty Index' (TEFUI) and employs the real-time monthly Google Trends data to cover the period from January 2004 to...

Using the daily frequency data for the period from August 9, 2015, to July 7, 2020, this paper re-examines the effects of the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on returns of four cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple. For this purpose, two new measures of the EPU...

In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of how uncertainty alters fertility behavior. The precautionary motive for saving predicts that an increase in income uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We examine this prediction using a new measure of economic...