The damaging impact of economic uncertainty on growth has been reasonably well studied - but what happens when there is uncertainty about economic policy-making? Nicholas Bloom and colleagues have developed a measure of this distinct kind of uncertainty, one that shows the value of restoring stability to current policy actions.

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16 February 2012     Paper Number CEPCP362

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Growth programme.