The Nexus between lockdown Shocks and Economic Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from a VAR model

Lucas Hafemann ()
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Lucas Hafemann: Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

MAGKS Papers on Economics from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)

Abstract: The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we introduce a daily vector autoregression (VAR) model for the US economy that allows discerning between lockdown shocks and a real business cycle shocks. With this methodology at hand, we then evaluate the impact of lockdown measures on economic uncertainty in a second step. Overall, we only find a moderate positive impact on uncertainty levels that is, in particular, weaker than the impact of the real business cycle shock. Taking a more granular perspective, we observe that in particular uncertainty related to entitlement programs increases and monetary policy uncertainty decreases after a lockdown shock.

Keywords: COVID-19; lockdown; shock identification; market uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 E62 E65 G01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2021
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