Název:
Economic Policy Uncertainty in Europe: Spillovers and Common Shocks
Autoři:
Baxa, Jaromír ; Šestořád, T. Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok:
2024
Jazyk:
eng
Edice: Czech National Bank Working Paper Series, svazek: 9/2024
Abstrakt: This paper proposes a novel approach to decompose the Economic Policy Uncertainty indices of European countries into the common and country-specific components using the time-varying total connectedness. Then, by employing a Bayesian panel VAR model, we assess how common and country-specific uncertainty shocks influence economic activity, prices, and monetary policy, with the shocks identified using zero and sign restrictions. Our results reveal that only common shocks have significant effects on all macroeconomic variables. This result is robust across alternative samples and structural identifications. Therefore, our findings imply that policymakers should focus on uncertainty shocks that are synchronized across countries.
Klíčová slova:
Common uncertainty; Economic Policy Uncertainty; Panel VAR Číslo projektu: GA20-14990S (CEP) Poskytovatel projektu: GA ČR