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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment behaviour using firm-level data for a sample of … Belgian manufacturing firms. In general, the results confirm former analysis at the aggregate level, stating that uncertainty … defined. It is shown that uncertainty has mainly an impact on the decision to invest and to a much lesser extent on the amount …

In this paper we investigate how demand and output price uncertainty affect investment plans of Belgian manufacturing … literature: two reduced form equations and a structural Euler equation. Our results show that uncertainty depresses investment …, uncertainty postpones investment today in favour of investment tomorrow. This effect is stronger for firms with more irreversible …

uncertainty significantly reduces managers' expected investment, employment and production in the short and mid run. We collect …This paper studies the dynamic effects of an uncertainty shock on firm expectations. We conduct a survey that confronts … managers from a representative firm sample with a model-consistent uncertainty shock scenario. An exogenous increase in …

Theoretical models point at various channels of the impact of inflation on corporate investment. This article attempts … corporate investment and inflation on the sample of 21 OECD countries in the years 1960-2005. The obtained negative relationship … this relationship: the marginal effect on corporate investment is higher at inflation rates between 3 and 5.5 per cent …

investment dynamics. By doing so, we compare five prominent uncertainty proxies put forward in the recent literature: the … type of uncertainty proxy, we document pronounced negative investment responses to uncertainty shocks. We further show that …Investment fell sharply in the euro area after the financial crisis and has not yet returned to pre-crisis levels in …