...Wenhao Dong; Chunlin Liu Purpose Amid escalating economic policy uncertainty (EPU), firms' innovation decisions are shaped by a fundamental conflict between efficiency logic and legitimacy logic. From an efficiency perspective, rising EPU increases uncertainty surrounding technological...

... extends the limited literature on corporate financialization in emerging markets by using a dynamic framework to investigate governance and economic policy uncertainty. It offers new insights into firm strategy, public policy, and sectoral patterns for financial activities. Kuldeep Singh can...

...Mohamed Albaity; Ray Saadaoui Mallek; Hasan Mustafa Purpose This study examined the impact of; COVID-19 investor sentiment, COVID-19 cases, geopolitical risk (GPR), economic policy uncertainty (EPU), oil returns and Islamic banking on bank stock returns. In addition, it examined whether Islamic...

...Chao He; Yanxi Li; Runxiang Xu Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide a textual approach to quantify the perception of uncertainty from management side and investigate how firms manage their overseas investment dynamics when perceiving an increase in economic policy uncertainty (EPU...

...Gaurav Gupta; Jitendra Mahakud; Vishal Kumar Singh Purpose This study examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the investment-cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) of Indian manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the fixed-effect method to investigate...

... in India through a two-staged framework developed to measure pre-market and post-market underpricing separately and the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the IPO returns using the EPU index which is based on newspaper coverage frequency. Further, the long-run performance of SME IPOs...

...Chi Wei Su; Xian-Li Meng; Ran Tao; Muhammad Umar Purpose This research examines the dynamic interrelationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and the inflows of foreign direct investment (IFDI) in China. Design/methodology/approach This research used the Granger causality and sub...

...Xi Zhong; Weihong Chen; Ge Ren Purpose Many studies have examined the antecedents of firms' strategic change on a micro and meso level, but few studies have explored it from the macrolevel (e.g. economic policy uncertainty) perspective. This research draws attention to the impact of economic...

...Sohil Idnani; Masudul Hasan Adil; Hoshiar Mal; Ashutosh Kolte Purpose This paper aims to understand the effect of a change in Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) of India and the USA on investors' sentiment in the Indian context, consisting of Sensex returns and volatility index (Vix). Design...

...Çağlayan Aslan; Senay Acikgoz Purpose The purpose of this paper to examine how global economic policy uncertainty (GEPU) affects export flows of emerging market economies. Design/methodology/approach This study examines the effect of GEPU on 28 emerging markets' export performance. GEPU...

...Abdulqadir Rahomee Ahmed Aljanabi Purpose This conceptual paper aims to provide a further understanding of the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU), news framing and information overload on panic buying behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Drawing...

...William Mbanyele Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the role of board networks in promoting stock liquidity when there is high economic policy uncertainty using a sample of Brazilian firms from 2002 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach The study employs the ordinary least squares...

...Liguang Zhang; Wanyi Chen; Ning Hu Purpose The main purpose of this study is to examine whether economic policy uncertainty affects the stock liquidity. Furthermore, this study explores the influencing factors, transmission mechanism and solution path between economic policy uncertainty...