crisis. Within a partial investment model, two kinds of uncertainty are introduced: volatility and disaster risk. The article … important but often neglected element of micro- and macroeconomic theory. With the onset of the financial crisis in 2007 and the … of uncertainty in macroeconomic models against the background of the theory of real option values, with a strong focus on …

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …