phenomenon. In addition to risk aversion, equity premium may reflect ambiguity aversion. We explore the sources of equity premium …

voting decisions. Thus, risk neutral individuals exhibit what we call political risk aversion. Yet individual uncertainty is …

explores how much of these large movements reflected shifts in (i) global risk aversion (ii) country-specific risks, directly … in the crisis, the surge in global risk aversion was a significant factor influencing sovereign spreads, while recently … Spain, as the emphasis has shifted towards short-term refinancing risk and long-term fiscal sustainability. The paper …

We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store … investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers invest relatively little. In contrast, low volatility of permanent … shocks leads to low precautionary saving and high or low investment, depending on the volatility of temporary shocks …

Panel data on Ghanaian manufacturing firms are used to test predictions from models of irreversible investment under …, higher uncertainty raises the hurdle level that triggers investment, and uncertainty has a negative effect on investment … levels that is greater for firms with more irreversible investment …

""production function"" that determines performance in office, then an officeholder has an incentive to experiment-that is, raise …

from risk neutrality and/or rational expectations. In addition, a mechanism is needed that generates the appropriate … correlation between the forward premium and shocks arising from risk premia or expectations errors. This paper extends McCallum …

We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …

uncertainty using options contracts. VAR analysis shows that the investment response to an uncertainty shock of average magnitude … in the sample is strong and persistent: the cumulative fall in investment from trend at a one-year horizon ranges 2 …-5.8 percentage points; and it takes between 1 1\2 and 2 years for investment to return to its trend level. Empirical ranges depend on …