This study investigates the effect of the changes in economic policy uncertainty in Europe on the performance of stock markets in the European Union, Croatia, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. Based on the analyses of monthly returns on the major stock market indices in these...

This paper examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty on the performance of the real estate sector proxied by Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) returns in the United States. Using monthly REIT index data and the monthly changes in a newly constructed index of economic policy...

This study employs the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis to empirically report the impulse response functions of economic policy certainty and financial stress. A causality test of these two variables is also performed. The analysis of the monthly changes in the economic policy uncertainty...

This paper examines if stock markets in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) respond to the changes in economic policy uncertainty in the United States. Based on the analysis of monthly returns on the stock market indices in Bangladesh from 1990:1 to 2009:4, India and...

Motivated by the current financial and economic situation in Europe, this paper seeks to establish how the changes in economic policy uncertainty in Europe affect the stock market performance in the United States. Analyzing monthly index of economic policy uncertainty in Europe and monthly...

This paper investigates if the changes in economic policy uncertainty in the United States can predict the performance of stock markets in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela). Based on the analyses of monthly returns of the Buenos Aires SE Merval Index...

This study examines the response of stock markets in China and Japan to the changes in economic policy uncertainty in the United States. The analysis of data of monthly changes in economic policy uncertainty in the US and monthly returns on Shanghai Composite Index from 1991:1 to 2012:5 and...