Arbeitspapier

Uncertainty and Change: Survey Evidence of Firms's Subjective Beliefs

This paper studies how managers plan under uncertainty. In a new survey panel on German manufacturing firms, we show that uncertainty reflects change: Planning incorporates higher subjective uncertainty about future sales growth when the firm has just experienced unusual growth, and more so if the experience was negative. At the quarterly frequency, subjective uncertainty closely tracks conditional volatility of shocks: Both exhibit an asymmetric V-shaped relationship with past growth. In the cross section of firms, however, subjective uncertainty differs from conditional volatility: planning in successful firms—either large or fast-growing—reflects lower subjective uncertainty than in unsuccessful firms even when the size of the shocks is the same.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9394

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Macroeconomics: Production
Thema
expectation formation
firms
measurement
subjective uncertainty
survey data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bachmann, Ruediger
Carstensen, Kai
Lautenbacher, Stefan
Schneider, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bachmann, Ruediger
  • Carstensen, Kai
  • Lautenbacher, Stefan
  • Schneider, Martin
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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