Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices …

Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices …

short-time window to test the impact of deteriorating expectations and uncertainty on firms' R&D choices. Our results show a … critically shape firms' reactions to the general uncertainty. Two main patterns emerge from our analysis. On the one hand, there …This paper takes advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to explore the determinants of firms' R&D choices around an …

endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater … acquiring or processing information acquire less information. Finally, an exogenous increase in the perceived uncertainty of the … exchange rate increases firms’ demand for a report about exchange rate developments, but not households'. Our findings inform …

Covid-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook … declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The …, business perceptions hardly reacted to any other potential source of information: Firms did not learn from foreign policy …

COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook … declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The …, business perceptions hardly reacted to any other potential source of information: Firms did not learn from foreign policy …

short-time window to test the impact of deteriorating expectations and uncertainty on firms' R&D choices. Our results show a … critically shape firms' reactions to the general uncertainty. Two main patterns emerge from our analysis. On the one hand, there …This paper takes advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to explore the determinants of firms' R&D choices around an …

endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater … acquiring or processing information acquire less information. Finally, an exogenous increase in the perceived uncertainty of the … exchange rate increases firms’ demand for a report about exchange rate developments, but not households’. Our findings inform …