In this study, we examine the differences in Investment, Employment, and Share repurchase sensitivities to uncertainty between firms with varying investor horizons. We test for these effects using two macro-based uncertainty measures (Baker et al., 2016; Ahir et al., 2018). The results show that in...

Using a sample of comparable public listed and private firms from nine European countries, we show that public firms reduce their investments by about 50% more than private firms in periods of elevated policy uncertainty. We find suggestive evidence that this can be explained by public firms'...