lower exchange rate bound vis-à-vis the Euro. This unexpected change of regime induced a temporary uncertainty about future … the source of uncertainty and disentangle first and second moment effects. We find that price uncertainty affects … and suggest the use of disaggregated investment data to deepen our knowledge on the relationship between uncertainty and …

There is wide debate over the impact of uncertainty on firm behavior, due to the difficulty both of measuring … uncertainty and of identifying causality. This paper takes three steps that attempt to address these challenges. First, we develop …-looking measures of uncertainty over firms' business conditions. Finally, we examine how uncertainty affects a range of outcomes …

I explore how and and to what extent policy uncertainty can account for the observed long-run cross-country differences …-related investment cost is uncertain. Holding the average one-period investment cost constant, policy uncertainty leads to a higher … capital price and subsequently to lower levels of long-run aggregate investment and output. Policy uncertainty also makes …

We investigate the effect of uncertainty on investment. We employ a unique dataset of 25000 Greek firms' balance sheets … uncertainty. The investment performance of 14 sectors is examined within a dynamic investment model. Robust GMM estimates of the … investment rate model reveal a high degree of heterogeneity among these sectors. Overall uncertainty affects negatively …

We argue the earnings announcement premium is a measure of firm-specific uncertainty aversion. Our stylized model shows … earnings announcements, as pure news events, are priced only if investors are uncertainty averse; further, the earnings … announcement return is negatively correlated to future investment only if there is time-varying uncertainty. Consistent with the …

study is aimed at empirical testing of hypotheses on how the level of financial leverage of corporations depends on … leverage and plays a prominent role in making financial decisions after the financial crisis. …