The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational … consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences … not exposed to risk while beneficiaries’ final earnings may be larger or smaller than the allocation itself, depending on …

This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by …-level uncertainty is characterized by a pecking order: the announcement of a domestic takeover leads to a reduction in the uncertainty … - engender a positive response in acquirers' volatility. Our results suggest that acquisitions affect uncertainty because they …

) the comparison of the degree of risk aversion for consumption and for LTC expenditures, and (iii) the income level of …

forecasting accuracy significantly. Higher uncertainty is found to increase the leverage and macro effects from credit and … commodity markets on stock market realized volatility. Specifically, Economic Policy Uncertainty is shown to be one of the main …

This paper studies the impact of financial sector size and leverage on the business cycle and risk-free rates dynamics …. We develop a general equilibrium model of a productive economy where financial intermediaries provide costly risk … cycle fluctuations, while providing households with a risk-free asset whose real return is pro-cyclical and possibly …

This paper introduces a formal definition and an experimental measurement of the concept of cognitive uncertainty …: people's subjective uncertainty about what the optimal action is. This concept allows us to bring together and partially … explain a set of behavioral anomalies identified across four distinct domains of decision-making: choice under risk, choice …

A large literature suggests that the expected equity risk premium is countercyclical. Using a variety of different … measures for this risk premium, we document that it also exhibits growth asymmetry, i.e. the risk premium rises sharply in … which agents cannot perfectly observe the state of current productivity, can generate the observed asymmetry in the risk …

How does economic uncertainty affect the impact of tax policy? We exploit a natural experiment in which two very …, and once during a period of very high uncertainty. Exploiting sharp discontinuities in eligibility and using rich … administrative data, we find that firms exposed to high uncertainty decide to "wait and see" before investing, despite generous …