Current Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) indicators are highly correlated with macroeconomic growth. To better reveal the EPU perceived by each firm, a firm-level EPU index is constructed using a text mining method. Using data of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2020, this study...

I study a long-run risk model with non-separable leisure and consumption in the Epstein-Zin preferences to price a cross-section of equity returns over 1948-2011 for the US market. The stochastic discount factor is shown by news on both leisure and consumption. While estimating these two long...

This paper constructs an index of firm’s perception of economic policy uncertainty (FEPU) with text-mining method and investigates its impact on cash holdings. With a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2012 to 2020, our empirical results show that firms tend to hold less cash when they...