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Spillover effects of the US economic policy uncertainty in Latin America

This paper is aimed at assessing the spillover effects of the US Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) in macroeconomic variables of major Latin American Countries (LAC): Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. To do that, we estimate a set of two-country Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) models for 1997-2019; each model includes the US and one of the LAC. We use the following variables: EPU indexes, exchange rates, consumer price indexes, industrial production (IP), and interest rates (IR) of the US and the studied LAC. The main finding is that positive shocks in the US EPU index lead to currency depreciation for all four LAC; the largest effect is for Mexico. Other statistically significant results are a brief and small positive impact on Colombia's IP and a positive impact on Mexico's IR. The remaining LAC's estimates are statistically insignificant. For this reason, we applied Rossi and Wang's (2019) robust Granger causality tests that considers structural breaks. Finally, the estimates before and after the 2008 financial crisis suggest that LAC became slightly more responsive to US EPU shocks after the crisis.

Weitere Titel
Efectos indirectos de la incertidumbre de la política económica de EE.UU.en América Latina
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Estudios de Economía ; ISSN: 0718-5286 ; Volume: 47 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 273-293

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Macroeconomic Impacts
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Latin America; Caribbean
Thema
Economic policy uncertainty
structural vector autoregressive
impulse response function
robust Granger-causality tests

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Coronado, Semei
Martínez, José
Venegas-Martínez, Francisco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía
(wo)
Santiago de Chile
(wann)
2020

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Beteiligte

  • Coronado, Semei
  • Martínez, José
  • Venegas-Martínez, Francisco
  • Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía

Entstanden

  • 2020

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