Arbeitspapier

Uncertainty Across Volatility Regimes

We propose a new non-recursive identification scheme for uncertainty shocks, which exploits breaks in the unconditional volatility of macroeconomic variables. Such identification approach allows us to simultaneously address two major questions in the empirical literature on uncertainty: (i) Does the relationship between uncertainty and economic activity change across macroeconomic regimes? (ii) Is uncertainty a major cause or effect (or both) of decline in economic activity? Empirical results based on a small-scale VAR with US monthly data for the period 1960-2015 suggest that (i) the effects of uncertainty shocks are regime-dependent, and (ii) uncertainty is an exogenous source of decline of economic activity, rather than an endogenous response to it.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6799

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Model Construction and Estimation
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Financial Crises
Thema
heteroscedasticity
identification
non-recursive SVAR
uncertainty shocks
volatility regime

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Angelini, Giovanni
Bacchiocchi, Emanuele
Caggiano, Giovanni
Fanelli, Luca
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Angelini, Giovanni
  • Bacchiocchi, Emanuele
  • Caggiano, Giovanni
  • Fanelli, Luca
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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