Does increased policy uncertainty dampen investment plans of firms? We provide direct evidence on this question by … induced policy uncertainty have revised their investment plans differently from those that did not perceive an increase in … uncertainty. We find strong evidence that an increase in policy uncertainty does lead firms to reduce their investment plans. As …

Does increased policy uncertainty dampen investment plans of firms? We provide direct evidence on this question by … induced policy uncertainty have revised their investment plans differently from those that did not perceive an increase in … uncertainty. We find strong evidence that an increase in policy uncertainty does lead firms to reduce their investment plans. As …

and suggest the use of disaggregated investment data to deepen our knowledge on the relationship between uncertainty and …A sudden change in monetary policy happened in Switzerland on January 15th, 2015. The Swiss National Bank removed a … lower exchange rate bound vis-à-vis the Euro. This unexpected change of regime induced a temporary uncertainty about future …

Recent theoretical developments relating to investment under uncertainty have highlighted the importance of … irreversibility for the timing of investment expenditures and their expected returns. This has subsequently stimulated a growing … empirical literature which examines uncertainty and threshold effects of investment behaviour. This paper presents a review of …

Recent theoretical developments relating to investment under uncertainty have highlighted the importance of … irreversibility for the timing of investment expenditures and their expected returns. This has subsequently stimulated a growing … empirical literature which examines uncertainty and threshold effects of investment behaviour. This paper presents a review of …

significant amplifying role for market uncertainty in the relation between sentiment and aggregate investment. A one …-standard-deviation increase in uncertainty more than doubles the effect of sentiment on investment. Moreover, allowing uncertainty …The effects of sentiment should be strongest during times of heightened valuation uncertainty. As such, we document a …

In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected … consequences of this substantial policy uncertainty shock on firms' private fixed investment and employment plans. We find that … those firms that believe that potential growth in Switzerland will deteriorate and those that report that investment …

In the literature investigating the impact of uncertainty on short-run and long-run investment, most authors have used … general ones and has the advantage of providing closed form solutions for both short-run investment rule and long-run rate of …

under uncertainty. The paper focuses on the heterogeneity of firm level investment responses to both demand and supply side … sources of uncertainty. Accordingly, the investment-uncertainty relationship is examined across groups of firms with varying … degrees of investment irreversibility defined on the basis of market structures and access to secondary markets for capital …

In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected … consequences of this substantial policy uncertainty shock on firms' private fixed investment and employment plans. We find that … those firms that believe that potential growth in Switzerland will deteriorate and those that report that investment …