This paper investigates whether and how economic policy uncertainty affects corporate debt maturity. Using a large firm-level dataset for four European countries, we find that an increase in economic policy uncertainty is significantly associated with a shortened debt maturity. Moreover, the...

This paper tests whether value-at-risk has a negative relationship with expected equity returns in China; specifically, we investigate left-tail return momentum. The findings reveal that left-tail momentum is significant during high economic policy uncertainty (EPU) periods. Moreover, when the...