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Tracking global economic uncertainty: Implications for the euro area

This paper sheds light on the impact of global macroeconomic uncertainty on the euro area economy. We build on the methodology proposed by Jurado et al. (2015) and estimate global as well as country-specific measures of economic uncertainty for fifteen key euro area trade partners and the euro area. Our measures display a clear counter-cyclical pattern and line up well to a wide range of historical events generally associated with heightened uncertainty. In addition, following Pier and Podstawski (2018), we estimate a Proxy SVAR where we instrument uncertainty shocks with changes in the price of gold around specific past events. We find that, historically, global uncertainty shocks have been important drivers of fluctuations in euro area economic activity, with one standard deviation increase in the identified uncertainty shock subtracting around 0.15 percentage points from euro area industrial production on impact.

ISBN
978-92-899-4541-7
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2541

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Bayesian Analysis: General
Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Macroeconomic Impacts
Thema
Uncertainty
Forecast Errors
Stochastic Volatility
Proxy SVAR
Economic Activity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bobasu, Alina
Geis, André
Quaglietti, Lucia
Ricci, Martino
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.2866/621710
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bobasu, Alina
  • Geis, André
  • Quaglietti, Lucia
  • Ricci, Martino
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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