This paper investigates the impact of innovations in US economic policy uncertainty on the co-movements of, respectively, the Shanghai A-share, the Shenzhen A-share, the Shanghai B-share and the Shenzhen B-share market, with the US stock market. We show that it is absolute changes in the US...

This study investigates the effects of economic policy uncertainty on capital structure decisions for US firms. We use all the five EPU indexes available, conduct both static and dynamic panel regression analyses, control for firm characteristics, take into account global financial episodes, and...

This paper examines the effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks on stock-bond correlations for the US market. We devise a general framework which distinguishes a positive shock from a negative one and nests either as its special case. The results show that innovations in the policy...