The Economic Impact of Recession Announcements

Andrew Eggers (), Martin Ellison and Sang Seok Lee
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Andrew Eggers: Nuffield College, University of Oxford

No 2025, Discussion Papers from Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM)

Abstract: The convention in the news media is to announce a recession if a country experiences two consecutive quarters of negative growth. We exploit the arbitrary threshold implied by this practice to identify the economic impact of recession announcements through a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD). Estimation results show that news of a recession leads to a discontinuous fall in consumer confidence, consumption growth and final estimates of GDP growth in a panel of countries. The effect is large, robust and statistically significant.

Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2020-11
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Journal Article: The economic impact of recession announcements (2021)
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