We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan … affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …

We estimate the impact on US non-residential fixed investment of permanent and temporary inflation uncertainty. We find … that while both have a negative effect, temporary uncertainty is more important for investment. This study has implications …

We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan … affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …

systemic risk is positively associated with the firm-level investment ratio after controlling for a large set of country … risk on corporate investment, suggesting that more financially constrained firms experience a larger effect of bank … systemic risk on corporate investment than less financially constrained firms …

cost of capital on investment. Following the method of Auerbach and Hassett (1991), using cross-sectional data we find that … the user cost is associated with higher rates of investment consistent with previous studies. BEA asset types with greater … significant increases in their investment rates several years after the tax reform. Specifically, we find the magnitude of a 1 …

This paper highlights the role of macroeconomic and financial uncertainty in predicting US recessions. In …. Macroeconomic uncertainty has the highest predictive power up to 7 months ahead and becomes the second best predictor --- after the … yield curve slope --- at longer horizons. Using data up to end-2018, out-of-sample forecasts show that uncertainty …