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 …

Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how … firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the Wage Dynamic Network Survey for 25 … European countries, we first construct, opposite to usual aggregate indicators, a set of uncertainty indicators exploiting …

We find that macroeconomic uncertainty plays a significant role in U.S. monetary policy. First, we construct a measure … of uncertainty as felt by policymakers at the time of making their rate-setting decisions. This measure is derived from a … of being in a high-uncertainty regime. Second, we estimate a monetary policy reaction function that, apart from …

adoption decision of particular technologies under uncertainty. These technologies are coal-fired power plants, biomassfired …

and centers the impact of uncertainty. The results of a panel study using aggregates of 5379 German entries to 22 … countries suggest that uncertainty has a U-shaped influence on the probability of entry and a negative effect on the amount of …

This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate … investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch … general investment spending. Furthermore, expectationsand uncertainty have important although different effects on investment …

We estimate the irrigation water demand for a season under uncertainty using a dynamic programming model and a crop …

Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …