This paper presents a brief introduction to the topics covered by the Economics of Uncertainty and Information. We focus on the impact of this fields to issues relevant for Latin America.

Political instability has been emphasized as a major source of uncertainty in Latin America. However, arbitrariness, i.e. the lack of constraints on the government, can also be seen as a major source of uncertainty in ...

This paper analyzes the extent to which economic policy uncertainty affects presidential approval in four Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico). Using panel (time-series cross-sectional) estimation ...

Previous works have reached widely divergent conclusions on the macroeconomic relevance of uncertainty shocks. We show that this disagreement reflects identification problems linked to the use of financial data in low-frequency ...

This work verifies the effects of economic uncertainty, economic policy uncertainty and business confidence in fixed capital investment and economic activity in Brazil, between January 2003 and December 2019. To achieve ...