Název:
Uncertain trends in economic policy uncertainty
Autoři:
Buliskeria, Nino ; Baxa, Jaromír ; Šestořád, T. Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok:
2023
Jazyk:
eng
Edice: Czech National Bank Working Paper Series, svazek: 16/2023
Abstrakt: The news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty indices (EPU) of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom display discernible trends that can be found neither in other European countries nor in other uncertainty indicators. Therefore, we replicate the EPU index of European countries and show that these trends are sensitive to the rather arbitrary choice of normalizing the raw counts of news related to economic policy uncertainty by the count of all newspaper articles. We show that an alternative normalization by news on economic policy leads to different long-term dynamics\nwith less pronounced trends and markedly lower uncertainty during recent periods of uncertainty such as Brexit or the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, our results suggest that the effects of uncertainty related to these events on economic activity may have been overestimated.
Klíčová slova:
Economic Policy Uncertainty; Reliability; Reproducibility Číslo projektu: GA20-14990S (CEP) Poskytovatel projektu: GA ČR