Does increased policy uncertainty dampen investment plans of firms? We provide direct evidence on this question by … induced policy uncertainty have revised their investment plans differently from those that did not perceive an increase in … uncertainty. We find strong evidence that an increase in policy uncertainty does lead firms to reduce their investment plans. As …

and suggest the use of disaggregated investment data to deepen our knowledge on the relationship between uncertainty and …A sudden change in monetary policy happened in Switzerland on January 15th, 2015. The Swiss National Bank removed a … lower exchange rate bound vis-à-vis the Euro. This unexpected change of regime induced a temporary uncertainty about future …

under uncertainty. The paper focuses on the heterogeneity of firm level investment responses to both demand and supply side … sources of uncertainty. Accordingly, the investment-uncertainty relationship is examined across groups of firms with varying … degrees of investment irreversibility defined on the basis of market structures and access to secondary markets for capital …

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. … investment research. For example, not including factor prices in investment models may seriously affect the model outco! mes …

This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment behaviour using firm-level data for a sample of … Belgian manufacturing firms. In general, the results confirm former analysis at the aggregate level, stating that uncertainty … defined. It is shown that uncertainty has mainly an impact on the decision to invest and to a much lesser extent on the amount …

and suggest the use of dis-aggregated investment data to deepen our knowledge on the relationship between uncertainty and …A sudden change in monetary policy happened in Switzerland on January 15th, 2015. The Swiss National Bank removed a … lower exchange rate bound vis-à-vis the Euro. This unexpected change of regime induced a temporary uncertainty about future …

In this paper we investigate how demand and output price uncertainty affect investment plans of Belgian manufacturing … literature: two reduced form equations and a structural Euler equation. Our results show that uncertainty depresses investment …, uncertainty postpones investment today in favour of investment tomorrow. This effect is stronger for firms with more irreversible …

In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected … consequences of this substantial policy uncertainty shock on firms' private fixed investment and employment plans. We find that … those firms that believe that potential growth in Switzerland will deteriorate and those that report that investment …

Does increased policy uncertainty dampen investment plans of firms? We provide direct evidence on this question by … induced policy uncertainty have revised their investment plans differently from those that did not perceive an increase in … uncertainty. We find strong evidence that an increase in policy uncertainty does lead firms to reduce their investment plans. As …

Does increased policy uncertainty dampen investment plans of firms? We provide direct evidence on this question by … induced policy uncertainty have revised their investment plans differently from those that did not perceive an increase in … uncertainty. We find strong evidence that an increase in policy uncertainty does lead firms to reduce their investment plans. As …