affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan …

We study how macroeconomic, firm-level and higher-order uncertainty affects real corporate investment in firms with …-holders are required to file indicating their active or passive status. Our main results are as follows. First, investment is more … all types of uncertainty shocks has a higher negative effect on investment rate for firms held by active block …