Do banks price environmental transition risks? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

B Huang, MT Punzi, Y Wu - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the risk arising from transition toward a low-emission economy and
examines its transmission channels within the financial system. The environmental dynamic …

Financial regulation policy uncertainty and credit spreads in the US

G Nodari - Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the linear and nonlinear effects of financial regulation policy
uncertainty shocks on US macroeconomic aggregates within a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) …

The timing of uncertainty shocks in a small open economy

H Armelius, I Hull, HS Köhler - Economics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Foreign measures of uncertainty, such as the US EPU index, are often used as a proxies for
domestic uncertainty in small open economies. We construct an EPU index for Sweden and …

Uncertainty-dependent effects of monetary policy shocks: A new-Keynesian interpretation

E Castelnuovo, G Pellegrino - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018 - Elsevier
We estimate a nonlinear VAR model to study the real effects of monetary policy shocks in
regimes characterized by high vs. low macroeconomic uncertainty. We find unexpected …

Uncertainty shocks, banking frictions and economic activity

D Bonciani, B Van Roye - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic activity in the euro
area by using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with heterogenous …

Aggregate uncertainty and sectoral productivity growth: The role of credit constraints

S Choi, D Furceri, Y Huang, P Loungani - Journal of International Money …, 2018 - Elsevier
We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty—measured by stock market volatility—
reduces productivity growth more in industries that depend heavily on external finance. The …

Uncertainty‐driven business cycles: Assessing the markup channel

B Born, J Pfeifer - Quantitative economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Precautionary pricing and increasing markups in representative‐agent DSGE models with
nominal rigidities are commonly used to generate negative output effects of uncertainty …

The impact of US financial uncertainty shocks on emerging market economies: An international credit channel

S Choi - Open Economies Review, 2018 - Springer
I document that US financial uncertainty shocks, measured by an increase in VIX, have a
substantial impact on the output of emerging market economies (EMEs) without a material …

Uncertainty, financial frictions, and nominal rigidities: A quantitative investigation

A Cesa‐Bianchi… - Journal of Money, Credit …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Are uncertainty shocks a major source of business cycle fluctuations? This paper studies the
effect of a mean preserving shock to the variance of aggregate total factor productivity …

The propagation of uncertainty shocks: Rotemberg versus Calvo

J Oh - International Economic Review, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article studies the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic activity, focusing on
inflation. Using a vector autoregression, I show that increased uncertainty has negative …