2020
DOI: 10.1111/obes.12380
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On the Time‐Varying Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on the US Economy

Abstract: We study the impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on the US Economy by using a VAR with time‐varying coefficients. The coefficients are allowed to evolve gradually over time which allows us to discover structural changes without imposing them a priori. We find three different regimes, which match the three major periods of the US economy, namely the Great Inflation, the Great Moderation and the Great Recession. The initial impact on real GDP ranges between −0.2% for the Great Inflation and Great Recessi… Show more

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“…Finally, we perform recursive and rolling window time-varying techniques following the works of Narayan and Sharma (2018), Inoue et al (2017), andPrüser andSchlösser (2020) in order to discover structural changes in impulse-responses that may evolve with respect to time. We selected various window sample sizes during both pre-crisis and post-crisis periods and estimated the baseline model under the same recursive identification assumptions.…”
Section: Robustness Checks and Alternative Approachesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, we perform recursive and rolling window time-varying techniques following the works of Narayan and Sharma (2018), Inoue et al (2017), andPrüser andSchlösser (2020) in order to discover structural changes in impulse-responses that may evolve with respect to time. We selected various window sample sizes during both pre-crisis and post-crisis periods and estimated the baseline model under the same recursive identification assumptions.…”
Section: Robustness Checks and Alternative Approachesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A second type of informational restriction which LMN employ is that one shock has a bigger effect on a variable than another. This was also used in Pruser and Schlosser (2020). 11 Now the central problem with this type of restriction is that the impulse responses whose magnitudes are used for comparison are those to one standard deviation shocks, and so they are not to the same sized shock.…”
Section: Dealing With Other Types Of Informational Restrictionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…e firm-level measures of economic policy uncertainty by most scholars include variability in expected growth rates of demand [4,5], individual firm share price volatility changes [6], and implications of changes in top company or country leadership [7,8]. In accordance with the economic policy uncertainty index constructed by Baker et al [9], the existing literature investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on different firms' investment decisions of using GMM models [10], constructing time-varying parametric VAR models [11], and so on.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%