This research investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on renewable energy innovation, based on a panel … of 22 countries during the period 1985-2019. The results indicate that economic policy uncertainty exerts a positive … addition, economic policy uncertainty improves renewable energy innovation only for high institutional quality countries, while …

Using quarterly worker flow data of U.S. establishments, we find that an unexpected increase in uncertainty reduces … hirings and quits, while it raises layoffs. This finding suggests that the real option effect of uncertainty is less important … for employment decisions. Hence plants do not freeze in response to uncertainty shocks. To explain our findings, we …