-contingent consumer's surplus and the state-contingent marginal utility of wealth and a second term representing risk aversion. This … consumer's surplus is determined by the covariance between preferences and consumer's surplus and risk aversion. The sign of …. We then apply this result to the allocation of risk in the context of both public and private goods. In Section 3, we …

We develop indices of Twitter-based Chinese Climate Uncertainty (TC-CU) and Climate Policy Uncertainty (TC-CPU). Our …, among many others. We find that TC-CPU is associated with future US climate uncertainty and attention measures while US …

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. …

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 …

of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk …This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the … role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success …

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 …

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 investigates the effects of uncertainty on the macro economy by replicating its micro effects on individual … the two scenarios through the empirical macroeconomic uncertainty index. The higher the macroeconomic uncertainty is, the … appropriate level of ambiguity aversion outperforms the benchmark model with no uncertainty in fitting the US output growth rate …

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 …