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We pay particular attention – especially under conditions of uncertainty, time pressure, and stress – to domains involving food, danger, and norm violations.
Indeed, businesses cite uncertainty about the strength of demand, not uncertainty about regulation or taxation, as the main factor holding back job creation.
And governments must forswear changes in these policies, lest the uncertainty itself act as a transaction cost.
The Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in June plunged the EU into a renewed period of uncertainty about the Union’s future.
But Trump has so far shown such indifference to rules and norms, such a disregard for limits, and such unpredictability, that the prevailing mood among Democrats and Republicans alike is one of uncertainty and unease.
That is why risk premiums are continuing to fall in the eurozone, despite high political uncertainty in Italy and continuing large fiscal deficits elsewhere.
A Turkish Thorn in the EU’s SideMADRID – While the European Union tries to weather a nationalist storm that threatens its core institutions, some of its most important strategic allies have injected more uncertainty into the current political climate.
The Kurdish question is a longstanding source of geopolitical uncertainty in the region.
But considerable uncertainty remains, not only about what caused the recent plunge in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, but also about what the episode will mean for China’s financial-reform efforts.
On one hand, power has shifted and become more diffuse, while the mismanagement – and misrepresentation – of globalization has created further uncertainty.
Japan’s growth revival comes at a time of increasing economic uncertainty in much of the developing world.
But not equally necessary is the enduring uncertainty about the common political platform upon which Europe’s voice in foreign policy will have to rely.
Even if there are no other “exit” moments elsewhere in Europe, a protracted period of uncertainty in global capital markets seems likely.
Financial markets do not handle uncertainty well.
There is little doubt that substantial foreign reserves, together with the flexibility to float and intervene, have mitigated the impact of the recent crisis on Latin America, and contributed to its emergence as one of the best-performing regions in an era of deep uncertainty elsewhere.
After years of painful uncertainty, the Greek banking sector is now one of the most stable in the eurozone.
This heightened uncertainty could spill over to economic activity in the rest of the European Union through adverse feedback loops between sovereign risk and the banking system.
And yet central bankers in the very emerging markets that the IMF is supposedly protecting have been sending an equally forceful message: Get on with it; the uncertainty is killing us.
Instead, however good its intentions, the net effect of too much Fed speak has been vagueness and uncertainty.
Allowing for a wide range of uncertainty, the CBO estimates that the stimulus added 1.5-3.5% to GDP by the fourth quarter, relative to where it otherwise would have been.
That is true, on average and in normal times, but what happens if many SWFs, responding to sudden uncertainty and volatility, pull back at the same time for diplomatic or commercial reasons?
Consumer spending dropped sharply in October, owing to negative wealth effects and heightened uncertainty, but it quickly stabilized and recovered, while investment spending remained essentially unchanged.
Market volatility declined, as did the associated uncertainty, buttressing consumer confidence.
More worrisome is the current uncertainty about whether a shaky Europe will stand up to Russia, upon which Serbia depends to maintain sovereignty over Kosovo.
But, whatever the reason, policymakers face considerable uncertainty about the level of NAIRU.
As a result, the degree of uncertainty in such estimates may be unacceptably high, making them of little real worth.
If household surveys are carried out properly, the number of excess deaths during the war can be estimated within a range of statistical uncertainty.
As uncertainty and instability associated with that process spread around the globe, the West has responded with either timidity or nostalgia for older forms of nationalism that failed in the past and certainly will not work now.
But uncertainty and inaction over Haiyan’s potential impact resulted in a death toll of nearly 6,000.
Likewise, Europe’s latest existential identity crisis is again creating a great deal of policy uncertainty and unpredictability.
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