... greenwashing. The analysis also highlights the role of economic policy uncertainty, which weakens the policy's impact on greenwashing. Furthermore, the study explores heterogeneity by geographic region and firm life-cycle stage, finding that the policy's mitigating effect is most pronounced in firms located...

...Muhammad Aftab; Inzamam Ul Haq; Mohamed Albaity Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has led to global economic policy uncertainty, which has increased the need to investigate ways to mitigate the uncertainty. This study aims to examine the potential of cryptocurrencies as a hedge and safe haven avenue...

... al. (2016) and Caldara and Iacovello (2021) indexes of economic policy uncertainty (EP) and geopolitical risks (GP), in the relationship. Design/methodology/approach The authors use data on the US, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Japan from January 2000 to February 2022 and the UK from...

... distribution (GED), this study specifies that the gold (or silver) return is a function of a set of economic and uncertainty variables, which include volatility from interest rate innovation, a change in economic policy uncertainty (EPU), a change in geopolitical risk (GPR) and volatility due to pandemic...

...Thomas C. Chiang Purpose This paper investigates the impact of a change in economic policy uncertainty ( Δ EPU t ) and the absolute value of a change in geopolitical risk ( | Δ GPR t | ) on the returns of stocks, bonds and gold in the Chinese market...

...Jian Chu; Junxiong Fang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of economic policy uncertainty on firms' labor investment decision, which includes labor investment level and efficiency, especially human capital allocation. Design/methodology/approach...

...Thomas C. Chiang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the risk and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) shocks on China’s equity markets while controlling for changes in sentiments and liquidity. Design/methodology/approach The GED-TARCH(1,1)-M procedure is used in estimations...