uncertainty on firms' decisions and market outcomes. We construct alternative measures of uncertainty based on survey of … index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment and the … generally non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on firms' decisions …

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …

practical prevalence of uncertainty. Theoretically complete models conceal it. As a remedy a scenario-based procedure of coping … with uncertainty can prescribe how the boundedly rational decision-maker should proceed from her or his internal point of … view. Though models of substantive rationality cannot serve as guidance for decision-making under uncertainty, we can …

Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the … threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in … decreases for firms above the threshold. Hence, legal uncertainty acts as a welfare enhancing screen and increases welfare …

-level uncertainty and imperfect information over their life cycle. We find that firms make non-negligible and positively correlated … informed. Moreover, young firms tend to wait long before entering or exiting the market faced with high uncertainty about their …

This contribution argues that uncertainty is integrated into the modern economic systems; however its autochthonously … increasing feature is puzzling and should be addressed in a more dedicated way. Behind the curtain of increasing uncertainty, we … are contributing to the deepening global distribution of uncertainty in the advanced world by establishing a vicious …

This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk …

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 …

Uncertainty shapes the trajectory of business cycles and remains a central research topic in Macroeconomics. When … studying the impact of uncertainty on the economy, economists use different uncertainty measures. While all indicators … approximate uncertainty along some certain dimension, none of the indicators directly captures Knightian Uncertainty. According to …