COVID-19 is also a reallocation shock

JM Barrero, N Bloom, SJ Davis - 2020 - nber.org
Drawing on firm-level expectations at a one-year forecast horizon in the Survey of Business
Uncertainty (SBU), we construct novel, forward-looking reallocation measures for jobs and …

Effects of social influence on crowdfunding performance: Implications of the covid-19 pandemic

S Zribi - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022 - nature.com
By analyzing a comprehensive dataset of 467 crowdfunding campaigns from the Spanish
platform Goteo over the period 2019–2020, our article empirically examines the impact of …

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 …

The US public debt valuation puzzle

Z Jiang, H Lustig, S Van Nieuwerburgh… - Econometrica, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The government budget constraint ties the market value of government debt to the expected
present discounted value of fiscal surpluses. We find evidence that US Treasury investors …

Oil volatility risk

L Gao, S Hitzemann, I Shaliastovich, L Xu - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
The option-implied oil price volatility is a strong negative predictor of economic growth
beyond traditional uncertainty measures. A rise in oil volatility also predicts an increase in oil …

The origins and effects of macroeconomic uncertainty

F Bianchi, H Kung, M Tirskikh - Quantitative Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate a production‐based general equilibrium model featuring demand‐and supply‐
side uncertainty and an endogenous term premium. Using term structure and …

Risky business cycles

S Basu, G Candian, R Chahrour, R Valchev - 2021 - nber.org
We identify a shock that explains the bulk of fluctuations in equity risk premia, and show that
the shock also explains a large fraction of the business-cycle comovements of output …

The US productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis

S Sprague - Monthly Lab. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
Labor productivity-defined as output per labor hour-has grown at a below-average rate since
2005, representing a dramatic reversal of the above-average growth of the late 1990s and …

Uncertainty, risk, and capital growth

G Segal, I Shaliastovich - 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We find that high macroeconomic uncertainty is associated with greater accumulation of
physical capital, despite a reduction in investment and valuations. To reconcile this puzzling …

The real response to uncertainty shocks: The risk premium channel

L Bretscher, A Hsu, A Tamoni - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Uncertainty shocks are also risk premium shocks. With countercyclical risk aversion (RA), a
positive shock to uncertainty increases risk and elevates RA as consumption growth falls …