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investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch …This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate … general investment spending. Furthermore, expectationsand uncertainty have important although different effects on investment …
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with two questions: Why do fictional expectations change in the course of capitalist development? And: Are fictional … expectations becoming more important in contemporary capitalism? …
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This paper investigates the effect of uncertainty on FDI flows into the Mexican manufacturing sector during the period … affect all manufacturing subsectors in general) uncertainty measures as explicative variables. We also perform some … simulations to quantify the effect of uncertainty on FDI flows. The main results show that uncertainty discourages FDI flows into …
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The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues … that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than …
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Why are some people more optimistic about their life than others? Literature on locus of control suggests that optimism is associated with the belief that one's life outcomes are controlled by internal factors, such as ability, instead of external factors, such as powerful others or chance....
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expectations and uncertainty, albeit to a much lesser extent than the domestic policy changes. … declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The …
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expectations and uncertainty, albeit to a much lesser extent than the domestic policy changes. … declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The …
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This paper introduces a new measure of fiscal policy uncertainty based on the disagreement among professional … brake' on fiscal policy uncertainty. Finally, we conduct an impulse response analysis to investigate the effect of fiscal … policy uncertainty on the real economy and we provide robust evidence that fiscal policy uncertainty significantly decreases …
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short-time window to test the impact of deteriorating expectations and uncertainty on firms' R&D choices. Our results show a … dramatic effect of firms' expectations about future market conditions. In this regard, internationalized and innovative … discontinuing research plans. Beyond the role played by expectations, innovative characteristics already in place are found to …
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This paper studies the dynamic effects of an uncertainty shock on firm expectations. We conduct a survey that confronts … managers from a representative firm sample with a model-consistent uncertainty shock scenario. An exogenous increase in … uncertainty significantly reduces managers' expected investment, employment and production in the short and mid run. We collect …
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