Measuring business-level expectations and uncertainty: survey evidence and the COVID-19 pandemic

• Cheng Chen

• Tatsuro Senga

• Hongyong Zhang

抄録

Utilizing a unique firm-level survey in Japan that contains five-bin forecasts for sales, we document three findings. First, firm-level subjective uncertainty is highly and positively related to volatility of past firm growth. Second, there are substantial variations in subjective uncertainty across firms, with a long right tail with extremely high subjective uncertainty. In addition, firms that have exposure to international businesses either through international trade or foreign direct investment have both higher average expected sales and subjective uncertainty. Finally, the sudden escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic in January–February 2020 led to a substantial increase in firms’ subjective uncertainty. Our triple-difference estimation results show that this effect is especially large for firms that have direct exposure to China through international trade and foreign direct investment.

収録刊行物

• The Japanese Economic Review

  The Japanese Economic Review 72 (3), 509-532, 2021-07

  Springer Science and Business Media LLC

キーワード

• Economics and Econometrics

詳細情報

• CRID: 1361134273567678720
• NII論文ID: 210000167703
• DOI: 10.1007/s42973-021-00078-8
• ISSN: 14685876
• ISSN: 13524739
• Web Site: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42973-021-00078-8.pdf
• Web Site: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42973-021-00078-8/fulltext.html
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