Economic policy uncertainty: A literature review

SA Al-Thaqeb, BG Algharabali - The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2019 - Elsevier
The significance of uncertainty in policies related to economic decisions is higher than ever
before in today's interconnected world. This study contributes to existing research by …

The pandemic and economic policy uncertainty

SA Al‐Thaqeb, BG Algharabali… - … Journal of Finance & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The events that occurred after the worldwide diffusion of COVID‐19 provide a real‐life
example of how uncertainty can severely affect the global economy. This paper reviews …

Firm-level political risk: Measurement and effects

TA Hassan, S Hollander, L Van Lent… - The Quarterly Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We adapt simple tools from computational linguistics to construct a new measure of political
risk faced by individual US firms: the share of their quarterly earnings conference calls that …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of economic policy uncertainty on exchange rate volatility of China

L Chen, Z Du, Z Hu - Finance Research Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on China's
exchange rate volatility from December 2001 to November 2018. Using the quantile …

Exchange rate return predictability in times of geopolitical risk

BN Iyke, DHB Phan, PK Narayan - International Review of Financial …, 2022 - Elsevier
We develop the hypothesis that geopolitical risk predicts exchange rate returns. Using data
on 17 countries, we demonstrate that the information content embedded in geopolitical risk …

Risk preferences and the macroeconomic announcement premium

H Ai, R Bansal - Econometrica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops a revealed preference theory for the equity premium around
macroeconomic announcements. Stock returns realized around pre‐scheduled …

Effects of geopolitical risks on trade flows: Evidence from the gravity model

R Gupta, G Gozgor, H Kaya, E Demir - Eurasian Economic Review, 2019 - Springer
Using a classical gravity model, this paper examines the effects of geopolitical risks on the
trade flows, among 164 developing and developed countries, for the period of 1985–2013 …

The global impact of Brexit uncertainty

TA Hassan, S Hollander, LV Lent… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a text‐based method for measuring the cross‐border propagation of large
shocks at the firm level. We apply this method to estimate the expected costs, benefits, and …

A bi‐level ensemble learning approach to complex time series forecasting: Taking exchange rates as an example

J Hao, QQ Feng, J Li, X Sun - Journal of Forecasting, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting complex time series faces a huge challenge due to its high volatility. To improve
the accuracy and robustness of prediction, this paper proposes a bi‐level ensemble learning …

Market-based monetary policy uncertainty

MD Bauer, A Lakdawala, P Mueller - The Economic Journal, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Uncertainty about future policy rates plays a crucial role for the transmission of monetary
policy to financial markets. We demonstrate this using event studies of FOMC …