Essays about: "EPU"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word EPU.

  1. 1. Does the Level of Swedish Economic Policy Uncertainty Help Forecast Excess Returns on the Swedish Stock Market?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Gustav Jacobsson; Oscar Klersell; [2023]
    Keywords : Economic Policy Uncertainty EPU ; Excess stock returns; Out-of-sample forecasting; Random walk; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis examines whether the level of Swedish economic policy uncertainty (EPU) can predict excess returns on the Swedish stock market. We run out-of-sample forecasting using an EPU-based predictive model constructed with the official Swedish EPU index developed by Armelius et al. (2017). READ MORE

  3. 2. The Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Swedish Exports during the 2008 Financial Crisis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Andrea Wigert; [2023]
    Keywords : Financial Crisis; Economic Policy Uncertainty; Sweden; Germany; the UK; the Netherlands; Exports; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The thesis aims to answer the research question: To what extent was the increased Economic Policy Uncertainty during the Financial Crisis associated with the decline in Swedish exports from January 2007 to January 2010? During the 2008 Financial Crisis, Swedish trade fell by ten percentage points, slightly more than the world average. The thesis aims to investigate whether the increased EPU at the time affected the decreased exports. READ MORE

  4. 3. Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Market Performance: The Role of CSR

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Albin Hammarberg; Victor Möller; [2023]
    Keywords : Economic Policy Uncertainty; Corporate Social Responsibility; Capital Asset Pricing Model; Fama French Three Factor Model; Stock Market Returns;

    Abstract : This research study aims to examine the association between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and stock market performance, and to investigate whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) has an impact on this relationship. The dataset used in this study comprises firms listed on the S&P 500 index from 2013 to 2022 and is applied on two models, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Fama French Three Factor Model. READ MORE

  5. 4. Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Swedish stock market : A quantitative study on how Economic Policy Uncertainty affects the Swedish stock market

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Andreas Vikström; [2020]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This study examines the effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on the Swedish stock market, both in the short-run and the long-run. To do this, the Economic Policy Uncertainty index, developed by Armelius et al. (2016), is used. This index was constructed with the purpose of measuring uncertainty related to economic policy. READ MORE

  6. 5. News-Based Uncertainty and Its Impact on Animal Spirits

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Tina Emambakhsh; [2020]
    Keywords : Uncertainty; Expectations; Newspaper; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Economic Policy;

    Abstract : An ever-unprecedented pandemic has recently skyrocketed uncertainty levels worldwide. This has made the need for measuring uncertainty and understanding its economic role more important than before. Recently, economic policy uncertainty expressed in news has been used as a proxy for uncertainty. READ MORE