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The effect of world policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk factors on export-led growth for Japan: novel insights by wavelet local multiple correlation methods
This study examines the relationships among exports, economic growth, the World Uncertainty Index, and the Geopolitical Risk Index for Japan within...
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Threat, Risk and Uncertainty: Triad of Chaotic Balance in a Chancy, Chancy World
This chapter deals with, what the author calls, decision accelerators (DAs) that influence decision-making in every human faculty. They are threat,...
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The nonlinear effect of macroeconomic and financial uncertainty on regional housing prices in the USA
This study investigated the nonlinear effects of macroeconomic and financial uncertainty on regional housing prices in the USA. The sample data...
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Economic policy uncertainty, corporate diversification and firm value: the global evidence
This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on firm value and examines corporate diversification's role between EPU and...
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Do Income and Employment Uncertainty Affect Couple Stability? Evidence for France During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Economic uncertainty and family dynamics are strictly connected. The increasing uncertainty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic is thus likely to...
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A news-based economic policy uncertainty index for Nigeria
In this study, we develop the first daily news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index for Nigeria, which was previously not covered in recent...
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Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents
This book provides a global perspective on COVID-19, taking the heterogenous realities of the pandemic into account. Contributions are rooted in...
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Probabilistic justice against status defense: inequality, uncertainty, and the future of the welfare state
The postwar welfare state provides social insurance against economic, health, and related risks in an uncertain world. Because everyone can envision...
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Risk Governance Dilemmas and Democratization: Public Trust, Risk Perception and Public Participation in Risk Decision-Making
Risk scholars and practitioners are grappling with how best to govern risk in the face of growing calls and rationales for democratization. The...
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Impacts of investor's sentiment, uncertainty indexes, and macroeconomic factors on the dynamic efficiency of G7 stock markets
This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic factors, microstructure factors, uncertainty indexes, the investor sentiment, and global shock...
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Uncertainty in grid data: a theory and comprehensive robustness test
This methodological note makes two novel contributions to spatial political and conflict research using grid data. First, it develops a...
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Impact of housing price uncertainty on herding behavior: evidence from UK’s regional housing markets
This study investigates the impact of housing price uncertainty on the herding behavior in the UK's regional housing markets. Using a sample of...
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Motivated Reasoning and Risk Governance: What Risk Scholars and Practitioners Need to Know
Empirical research in psychology and political science shows that individuals collect, process, and interpret information in a goal-driven fashion....
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Parent’s risk preference and childhood vaccination: evidence from Indonesia
A vaccines advisory group to the World Health Organization (WHO) identified complacency, inconvenience in accessing vaccines, and lack of confidence...
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The Role of Data Sample Uncertainty in Delineations of Core Based Statistical Areas and Rural Urban Commuting Areas
Federal standards that assign counties to Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and designate tracts with a Rural Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) code...
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Measuring the effect of employment uncertainty on fertility in low-fertility contexts: an overview of existing measures
Numerous studies aim to connect negative fertility desires and outcomes with employment conditions deemed to be uncertain. However, there is a lack...
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Commentary: Clear and Present Danger—Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life
This chapter explores aspects of distrust, conflict, and guilt over the burden of acknowledging extraordinary risks, mainly through ordinary...
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The Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on State Anxiety in the Regular Epidemic Prevention and Control Phase in the Context of Informatization: A Moderated Chain Mediation Model
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a generally high level of state anxiety resulting from the high contagiousness of the disease and strict prevention...
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World pandemic uncertainty and German stock market: evidence from Markov regime-switching and Fourier based approaches
This study aims to examine the impact of the world pandemic uncertainty index on the German stock market index (DAX index) for the 1996Q1 to 2020Q3...
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Hydraulic Fracturing in New Brunswick: Trust, Deliberation, and Risk Decision-Making
This chapter focuses on the role of trust in energy decision-making for shale gas development in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. It examines...