Economic Policy Uncertainty index

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Text- and survey-based indices of policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, investor sentiment and financial stress.

Names searched for: Economic Policy Uncertainty, EPU index

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 1,516 archived papers mentioned Economic Policy Uncertainty index in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (71).
Economic Policy Uncertainty index was mentioned in 30 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #6 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Finance (19), Economics (8) and Management (3).
Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (5), Finance research letters (3) and The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Economic Policy Uncertainty index was mentioned in 2,348 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (1,282), economics (762) and management (174).
469 of them were published in 2025, against 36 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (38), Central University of Finance and Economics (29) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (29).
The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (157), International Review of Economics & Finance (130) and Financial Innovation (96).
The most-cited of them is “COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach” (International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020), with 1,488 citations.
Papers use Economic Policy Uncertainty index most often with VIX (256), S&P 500 (217) and Climate Policy Uncertainty index (169); it has 150 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	510	477	529	1,516

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Finance	17	24	45	74	94	102	150	292	242	242
Economics	16	16	23	33	74	60	104	152	144	140
Management	1	0	0	2	5	9	20	38	53	46
Operations Research	0	0	0	1	0	5	5	12	9	12
Accounting	1	1	2	2	4	0	0	12	10	11
Tourism and Hospitality	1	2	2	1	1	0	4	2	2	3
AI	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	3	1
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All categories	36	43	72	113	178	178	284	518	469	457

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Finance research letters	157
2	International Review of Economics & Finance	130
3	Financial Innovation	96
4	International Review of Financial Analysis	84
5	Energy Economics	73
6	Research in International Business and Finance	56
7	The North American Journal of Economics and Finance	49
8	Future Business Journal	46
9	Resources Policy	45
10	Borsa Istanbul Review	40

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Lebanese American University	38
2	Central University of Finance and Economics	29
3	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	29
4	Hunan University	23
5	Paris School of Business	23
6	Renmin University of China	21
7	Southwest Jiaotong University	19
8	University of International Business and Economics	19
9	Xiamen University	18
10	Central South University	17

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	674
2	United Kingdom	308
3	United States	171
4	France	106
5	Turkey	103
6	Australia	102
7	Italy	89
8	India	70
9	Spain	62
10	South Korea	60

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	economic policy uncertainty	858
2	geopolitical risk	192
3	COVID-19 pandemic	177
4	China	129
5	Chinese listed companies	123
6	financial constraints	89
7	emerging markets	79
8	climate policy uncertainty	76
9	Russian invasion of Ukraine	75
10	corporate governance	62

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,488	19.2	COVID-19 pandemic, oil prices, stock market, geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty nexus in the US economy: Fresh evidence from the wavelet-based approach	International Review of Financial Analysis	2020-05-15	Arshian Sharif, Chaker Aloui, Larisa Yarovaya
2	717	8.5	Measuring economic policy uncertainty in China	China Economic Review	2019-11-03	Yun Huang, Paul Luk
3	694	6.6	Does economic policy uncertainty predict the Bitcoin returns? An empirical investigation	Finance research letters	2018-01-31	Ender Demir, Giray Gözgör, Chi Keung Marco Lau et al.
4	678	6.9	The effect of economic policy uncertainty on investor information asymmetry and management disclosures	Journal of Accounting and Economics	2018-08-21	Venky Nagar, Jordan Schoenfeld, Laura A. Wellman
5	630	7.4	Economic policy uncertainty: A literature review	The Journal of Economic Asymmetries	2019-09-23	Saud Asaad Althaqeb, Barrak Ghanim Algharabali

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use Economic Policy Uncertainty index most often with VIX (256), S&P 500 (217) and Climate Policy Uncertainty index (169); it has 150 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat. The whole network →

What papers use Economic Policy Uncertainty index together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
VIX	Dataset	256	4.8
S&P 500	Dataset	217	1.7
Climate Policy Uncertainty index	Dataset	169	5.4
Geopolitical Risk index	Dataset	143	10.6
Marketization index (Fan Gang)	Dataset	136	3.6
WTI crude oil	Dataset	133	3.6
Trade Policy Uncertainty index	Dataset	109	6.3
Twitter / X	Dataset	98	0.5
World Development Indicators (World Bank)	Dataset	78	1.5
CSMAR	Dataset	74	3.0
Brent crude oil	Dataset	73	3.0
Compustat	Dataset	65	1.8

Papers mentioning Economic Policy Uncertainty index in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-11-01	How economic policy uncertainty spreads across borders: The case of Latin America	Emerging Markets Review	Erik Andres–Escayola, Luis Molina, Javier J. Pérez et al.	University of Alicante; Bank of Spain
2026-10-30	International transport corridor and firm capacity utilization: Evidence from the China-Europe Railway Express	International Review of Economics & Finance	Mufang Xie, Xiaohua Chen, Changbiao Zhong	China University of Mining and Technology; Zhejiang Sci-Tech University; Yunnan University of Finance And Economics
2026-10-30	Firm-level exposure to economic policy uncertainty and artificial intelligence investment: evidence from China	The North American Journal of Economics and Finance	Zujing Shi, Chenyang Shang, Siliang Liu	Guangxi University; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2026-10-29	Climate and economic uncertainty as drivers of financial stress: evidence from Germany, China, and Japan	Eurasian economic review :	Faroque Ahmed, Md. Monirul Islam, Dmitri Blueschke et al.	Ural Federal University; University of Dhaka; Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management; …
2026-10-29	From Headlines to Assembly Lines: Constructing a Manufacturing Economic Policy Uncertainty Index	Atlantic Economic Journal	Simran K. Kahai, Aksh Dantal	John Carroll University
2026-10-28	Climate finance transition risk under uncertainty: Text-mining evidence from the Japanese equity market	Journal of Climate Finance	Sanoh Yusuf	The University of Osaka
2026-10-27	Macro-financial conditions and volatility connectedness across industrial and precious metal markets	International Review of Economics & Finance	Amelie Schischke, Andreas Rathgeber	University of Augsburg
2026-10-26	Regime-dependent bitcoin volatility forecasting under alternative information sets: evidence from econometric, deep learning, and hybrid models	Digital Finance	Ahmed Soliman Wafi, Sherif Ismail El-Halaby, Sameh Abd-el Maksoud Mohamed Aboul-Dahab	Cairo University; EU Business School, Munich; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; …
2026-10-24	Crypto to stablecoins: Digital money and exchange-rate volatility	Research in International Business and Finance	Joanna Darwiche, Moustapha Badran, Mohamed Awada et al.	Saint Joseph University; Université de Montpellier; Montpellier Recherche en Economie; …
2026-10-22	Do long-term yields help to estimate short-term risk premia?	Journal of Financial Economics	Andrea Berardi, Roger Brown, Stephen M. Schaefer	Ca' Foscari University of Venice; London Business School
2026-10-21	The impact of carbon emissions trading on the cleanliness of corporate export products: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment based on the carbon emissions trading pilot	International Review of Economics & Finance	Xiaohng Chen, Jing Yang, Huaqing Zuoma et al.	Xinjiang Normal University; Xinjiang University; China University of Petroleum, East China
2026-10-21	Economic policy uncertainty and Chinese exchange rate volatility: evidence from the GARCH–MIDAS approach	Review of World Economics	Panpan Wang, Yishi Li, Changqian Xie et al.	Southeast University; Zhejiang University of Water Resource and Electric Power
2026-10-19	Cryptocurrency and initial trust formation: an empirical investigation into the dynamics of willingness to use in financial transactions	Financial Innovation	Ahmed Geebren	Tobruk University
2026-10-17	Asymmetric effects of policy uncertainty on aggregate earnings	Finance research letters	Weiyi Kang, Jing Wang	California Polytechnic State University; California State University, Bakersfield
2026-10-15	Economic uncertainty and fertility cycles: baby boom and busts in twentieth century USA	Journal of Economic Growth	Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Paula E. Gobbi	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research; Middlesex University London; Université Libre de Bruxelles
2026-10-15	Geopolitical risk spillovers among GCC stock markets, non-renewable energy, and gold: evidence from a quantile connectedness approach	Portuguese Economic Journal	Nidhal Mgadmi, Fekria Belhouichet, Ştefan Cristian Gherghina et al.	University of Sfax; Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax; Bucharest University of Economic Studies; …
2026-10-15	Understanding the determinants and consequences of share-pledging: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	Management Review Quarterly	Rohith Radhakrishnan, E Geetha, Agnes S. Joseph	Manipal Academy of Higher Education; Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies; Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal
2026-10-14	Government-sourced categorical economic policy uncertainty	International Review of Economics & Finance	Khanh Cong Gia Hoang, Linh Pham, Thanh Ngo et al.
2026-10-12	The influence of inflation on commercial bank performance: a systematic review	Future Business Journal	Safwan Al-Dhobee, Mohammed Al-Rafaik, Ali Al-Oluki et al.	Sana'a University; Thamar University; Aljeel Aljadeed University
2026-10-11	Trilemma constraints and policy space: Geopolitical risk, capital flow dynamics, and exchange rate adjustment in a panel of China and OECD countries	Economic Analysis and Policy	Yuchen Shen, Yifeng Wang	Xidian University
2026-10-10	Innovation bridging sustainability: the role of digital finance, institutional policy stringency, and climate physical risks for advancing energy transformation	Financial Innovation	Huma Iftikhar, Luo Guang, Ningyu Qian	Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2026-10-10	Spillover effects of government subsidies on peer firms' wage growth: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	Economic Analysis and Policy	Lingfei Qu, Feng Gong	Wuhan University
2026-10-10	The judgment-based approach to entrepreneurship: The uncertainty–heterogeneity nexus	Journal of Business Venturing	Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Carmen-Elena Dorobat et al.	Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics; Baylor University; …
2026-10-08	Behavioral drivers of cryptocurrency markets: A systematic review	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	Sebastian Steindl, Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann, Bernd Britzelmaier	University of Nicosia; University of Applied Management Studies; Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
2026-10-08	Is the relationship between climate policy uncertainty and cash holding nonlinear?	The North American Journal of Economics and Finance	Augustinos I. Dimitras, Efstathios Magerakis, George Peppas	Hellenic Open University
2026-10-07	Geopolitical risk and the spatial convergence of renewable energy consumption: Evidence from 1996 to 2026	International Review of Economics & Finance	Liu He, 邹佰峰, Xing Chiang	Northeast Agricultural University; Northeast Forestry University; City University of Macau
2026-10-07	ESG ratings for blockchains and cryptocurrencies	Finance research letters	Jerusa Alberton, Marcelo Cabús Klötzle, Marcelo Guedes Pecly et al.	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
2026-10-07	Testing for dominance in risk transmission mechanisms towards the European energy market	Finance research letters	Jone Ascorbebeitia, Eva Ferreira, Susan Orbe	University of the Basque Country
2026-10-06	Is bitcoin a hedge against central banking? Evidence from AI-driven monetary policy expectations	Journal of International Money and Finance	Maxime L. D. Nicolas, François Sicard, Marion Labouré et al.	University College London; Deutsche Bank (United Kingdom)
2026-10-06	Technology trade under uncertainty: sectoral heterogeneity across the US, China, and Europe	Economic Change and Restructuring	Ewa Cieślik, Anna Zamojska	Poznań University of Economics and Business; University of Gdańsk

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Economic Policy Uncertainty index. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index

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