scholarly journals Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Trade Credit Provision: The Role of Social Trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Liu ◽  
Daxin Dong
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Alternative Measure ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on trade credit while taking into account the interactive role of social trust. The analysis is based on the panel data econometric model with fixed effects. Using firm-level data across 16 economies from 1995Q1 to 2015Q1, we find that (i) there exists a negative and highly significant relationship between economic policy uncertainty and the provision of trade credit; (ii) this relation is weaker for firms in countries with higher levels of social trust; and (iii) the effects of EPU and social trust are both more substantial for firms in more financially constrained industries. The impact of social trust is not a result of people’s high confidence in government, an effective legal system of enforcing contracts, a high-quality institutional system or an excellent system of protecting shareholders. Our result is robust if we exclude business cycle effects or use an alternative measure of financial constraints.

scholarly journals Preventing crash in stock market: The role of economic policy uncertainty during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng-Fei Dai ◽  
Xiong Xiong ◽  
Zhifeng Liu ◽  
Toan Luu Duc Huynh ◽  
Jianjun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Stock Market Crash ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the crash risk of US stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we use the GARCH-S (GARCH with skewness) model to estimate daily skewness as a proxy for the stock market crash risk. The empirical results show the significantly negative correlation between EPU and stock market crash risk, indicating the aggravation of EPU increase the crash risk. Moreover, the negative correlation gets stronger after the global COVID-19 outbreak, which shows the crash risk of the US stock market will be more affected by EPU during the epidemic.

scholarly journals Firms’ Sustainability: Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect Internal Control?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang-Nan Liao ◽  
Xiao-Li Ji ◽  
Zhi-Ping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Exogenous Shock ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Insight Into

This paper studies whether economic policy uncertainty (EPU) influences internal control (IC). Exploiting EPU as an exogenous shock and using unique internal control index data at the firm level from China, we can make causal inferences about the EPU effect on IC, and provide new insight into firms’ sustainability. Our results show that firms tend to cope with higher EPU by improving IC, indicating their efforts to ensure sustainability development. We also find that this trend is intensified for firms localized in regions with a lower marketization degree, state-owned firms, or firms with fewer analysts following. Further analyses show that EPU significantly reduces the internal control auditing fees, hence backing up the association between EPU and IC. Unlike the previous literature, this paper shows the important role of internal control for firms in coping with EPU, which is of crucial significance to how firms seek to adhere to sustainable development and how economic policy works best.

Economic policy uncertainty and investment of Russian companies

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Iuliia N. Naidenova ◽  
Veronika V. Leonteva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Corporate Investment ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
The Impact

This paper is devoted to determining the impact of economic policy uncertainty on corporate investment of Russian manufacturing companies. By applying fixed effects models on panel data, it was found that under increasing level of economic policy uncertainty, the companies reduce their investment activity. The effect is most pronounced for large companies. It is important to note that public companies are not affected by the uncertainty of Russian economic policy, however, the European and global economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on their investments. Testing the robustness by applying the methods of instrumental variables confirms the results. The study suggests that maintaining transparency and stability of economic policy can increase the level of corporate investment.

scholarly journals Do Economic Policy Uncertainty and Geopolitical Risk Lead to Environmental Degradation? Evidence from Emerging Economies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5866
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khalid Anser ◽  
Qasim Raza Syed ◽  
Hooi Hooi Lean ◽  
Andrew Adewale Alola ◽  
Munir Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Integration Test ◽  
The Impact

Since the turn of twenty first century, economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and geopolitical risk (GPR) have escalated across the globe. These two factors have both economic and environmental impacts. However, there exists dearth of literature that expounds the impact of EPU and GPR on environmental degradation. This study, therefore, probes the impact of EPU and GPR on ecological footprint (proxy for environmental degradation) in selected emerging economies. Cross-sectional dependence test, slope heterogeneity test, Westerlund co-integration test, fully modified least ordinary least square estimator, dynamic OLS estimator, and augmented mean group estimator are employed to conduct the robust analyses. The findings reveal that EPU and non-renewable energy consumption escalate ecological footprint, whereas GPR and renewable energy plunge ecological footprint. In addition, findings from the causality test reveal both uni-directional and bi-directional causality between a few variables. Based on the findings, we deduce several policy implications to accomplish the sustainable development goals in emerging economies.

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