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Trump economic `uncertainty' worse than '08 financial crisis levels, index shows
18 May 2017
Increases "in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States," the three professors who created the index wrote in a 2016 paper. The index was created in 2011 by Scott R. Baker of Northwestern University, Nicholas Bloom from Stanford University and Steven J. Davis, of the University of Chicago.
Related publications
‘Economic Recovery and Policy Uncertainty’, Scott R. Baker, Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis and John Van Reenen, CEP US Election Analysis No.2, October 2012