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 …

holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and … actual response to shocks is less than half as fast as the estimated response. For investment, labor demand and prices, the …, even after aggregating investment across all establishments in U.S. manufacturing, the estimate of its speed of adjustment …