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Opinion: What's behind the global economy's 'hesitation blues'?
21 July 2016
In a 2015 working paper, the economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis constructed Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) indices for a dozen countries using digital news archives. The indices (covering Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were created by counting the number of newspaper articles in each country and each month that had the trifecta of terms ''economy'' (E), ''policy'' (P) and ''uncertainty'' (U).
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Related publications
Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty, Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1379, October 2015
Related links
Nicholas Bloom webpage
Growth Programme webpage