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Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Altig, Dave; Baker, Scott Brent; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2020
We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the United States and the UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic policy uncertainty, twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncertainty about future business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251406
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Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Altig, Dave; Baker, Scott Brent; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2020
We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the United States and the UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic policy uncertainty, twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncertainty about future business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389586
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Economic policy uncertainty in the euro area: An unsupervised machine learning approach
Azqueta-Gavaldón, Andrés; Hirschbühl, Dominik; … - 2020
We model economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the four largest euro area countries by applying machine learning techniques to news articles. The unsupervised machine learning algorithm used makes it possible to retrieve the individual components of overall EPU endogenously for a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389562
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Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland
Azqueta-Gavaldon, Andres - 2020
We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised machine learning algorithm over the period 2008-2017, we construct three important uncertainty indices underlying reports in the Scottish news media: Scottish independence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422065
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Economic policy uncertainty in the euro area : an unsupervised machine learning approach
Azqueta-Gavaldón, Andrés; Hirschbühl, Dominik; … - 2020
We model economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the four largest euro area countries by applying machine learning techniques to news articles. The unsupervised machine learning algorithm used makes it possible to retrieve the individual components of overall EPU endogenously for a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139754
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Political referenda and investment : evidence from Scotland
Azqueta-Gavaldon, Andres - 2020
We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised machine learning algorithm over the period 2008-2017, we construct three important uncertainty indices underlying reports in the Scottish news media: Scottish independence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212854
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State-level economic policy uncertainty
Baker, Scott; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - 2022
We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170258
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As California goes, so goes the nation? : the impact of board gender quotas on firm performance and the director labor market
Meyerinck, Felix von; Niessen-Ruenzi, Alexandra; … - 2019
In 2018, California became the first U.S. state to introduce a mandatory board gender quota for all firms headquartered … returns of -2.6% to the adoption of the gender quota for California firms and large spillover effects of -1.9% for non … non-California firms in states that followed California's legislative lead in the past by, e.g., introducing gender quota …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050886
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Gender quotas in the board room and firm performance : evidence from a credible threat in Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Jansson, Joakim - 2017 - This version: 2017-04-05
Board room quotas have recently received an increasing amount of attention. This paper provides novel evidence on firm performance from an exogenous change in female board participation in Sweden. We use the credible threat, aimed at listed firms, of a quota law enacted by the Swedish deputy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641946
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Pandemic depression : COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185739