Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*
Work
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: We develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence—including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles—indicate that our in... more
Cites: 74
Cited by: 9,093
Related to: 10
FWCI: 849.3
Citation percentile (by year/subfield): 100
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze