This paper offers, for the first time, evidence on the effect of ECB's conventional and unconventional monetary policy on economic expectations in Euro-area countries during the US and EU crisis. We employ a range of research methodologies (PVAR, QVAR, FAVAR) in a sample of nine Eurozone...

This paper evaluates the impact of Brexit-related uncertainty on the economies of the UK, EU, and the US. We propose a measure of Brexit uncertainty that has not been employed before in the literature. We first construct a binary variable by listing and selecting Brexit-related events according...

In this paper we examine the effect of ECB's unconventional monetary policy measures on energy prices. Our results indicate that the non-standard ECB monetary policies during the recent financial crises had a significant and negative impact on energy prices. For example, we find that these...

Monetary policy actions (conventional and unconventional) are important events that are expected to affect asset prices, especially during periods of financial turmoil. Although many studies examine their effect on asset prices there is a lack of empirical evidence on their impact on investor...

This paper examines the relationship between climate risk and climate policy uncertainty and CO2 emissions in the US, with an aim to contribute to the better understanding of the drivers of emissions. We proxy for climate risk using the cost of natural disasters, and for policy uncertainty the...