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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of economic policy uncertainty on firms' investment decisions. We … focus on Spain for the period 1998-2014. To measure policy-related uncertainty, we borrow the economic policy uncertainty … (EPU) indicator available for this country. We find strong evidence that uncertainty reduces corporate investment. This …
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between firm-level capital investment and the aggregate level of uncertainty associated with future policy and regulatory … outcomes. More importantly, we find evidence that the relation between policy uncertainty and capital investment is not uniform … in the cross section, being significantly stronger for firms with a higher degree of investment irreversibility and for …
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This article explores the economic effects of checks and balances on corporate investment and employment. I use U … political agenda. I find that both public and private firms respond to the political cycle by reducing investment and hiring … when government becomes unified. Investment drops by three to five percent in the year following an election resulting in …
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We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standarddeviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …
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We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standard-deviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …
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Using a sample of comparable public listed and private firms from nine European countries, we show that public firms reduce their investments by about 50% more than private firms in periods of elevated policy uncertainty. We find suggestive evidence that this can be explained by public firms'...
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Many commentators argue that uncertainty about tax, spending, monetary and regulatory policy slowed the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession. To investigate this we develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU), built on three components: the frequency of newspaper references to...
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In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … investment research. For example, not including factor prices in investment models may seriously affect the model outco! mes … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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This paper investigates how cross-sectional micro-uncertainty influences the investment of small and large firms and … discusses the aggregate implications of the heterogeneity in their investment decisions. Empirically, we find that large firms … show less investment decline in times of heightened uncertainty. We provide empirical evidence for the underlying driver of …
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