Corporate cash holdings, agency problems, and economic policy uncertainty

S Javadi, M Mollagholamali, A Nejadmalayeri… - International Review of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Consistent with the agency view of cash holdings, we document a strong negative
relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate cash holdings for non-US …

Impact of economic policy uncertainty on the firm's working capital requirements

CC Chang, HY Chen, KT Mon - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Policy uncertainty is the uncertainty about the government's future actions. Economic policy
uncertainty (EPU) may exist when the macroeconomic environment becomes uncertain. The …

Rising policy uncertainty

SJ Davis - 2019 - nber.org
ABSTRACT I review evidence of rising policy uncertainty in the US and global economies,
drawing heavily on newspaper-based measures. Examples from countries around the world …

Economic policy uncertainty and international IPO underpricing

TJ Boulton - Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions …, 2022 - Elsevier
I find robust evidence that elevated economic policy uncertainty (EPU) is associated with
higher underpricing in a large sample of IPOs issued in 22 countries between 1998 and …

Exports, investment and policy uncertainty

A Greenland, M Ion, J Lopresti - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Building on a literature that underscores the value of delaying investment in the face of
uncertainty, we study how policy uncertainty in 18 large economies affects exports to these …

Economic policy uncertainty and subjective health: A gender perspective

HL Tao, HP Cheng - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
This study utilizes data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the country-level Economic
Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index to explore the relationship between the EPU and subjective …

Economic uncertainty and natural language processing; The case of Russia

W Charemza, S Makarova, K Rybiński - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper proposes a method of constructing text-based country-specific measures for
economic policy uncertainty. To avoid problems of translation and human validation costs …

A tale of two impacts: Entrepreneurial action and the gender-related effects of economic policy uncertainty

P Manocha, RA Hunt, M Stallkamp… - Journal of Business …, 2024 - Elsevier
The underlying intents and long-lasting impacts of economic policies are not only significant
drivers of the quantity and productiveness of entrepreneurial action but also its diversity …

Assessing dynamic co-movement of news based uncertainty indices and distance-to-default of global FinTech firms

Z Anwer, MA Khan, MK Hassan, MKH Singh - Research in International …, 2024 - Elsevier
Contemporary literature does not offer evidence on the causal relationship of default risk
and investor sentiments for FinTech sector. We bridge this gap by assessing the dynamic co …

Understanding determinants of outward foreign direct investment: the role of economic policy uncertainty, institutional quality, and globalization

F Ölmez, E Bilgiç, E Aydın - Journal of Economics, Finance and …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This research aims to investigate the role of the economic policy uncertainty (EPU)
in the outward FDI (OFDI) of the United Kingdom (UK) by considering the institutional quality …