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The authors build a new database of highly spatially disaggregated indicators related to risk and resilience to the … concentrations of these and other risk factors at the lowest administrative level in the country, neighborhood-sized units called … survey data from the ongoing Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan project to produce an overall risk index, which is …
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This paper uses a FAVAR model with stochastic volatility to estimate the impact of uncertainty shocks on real income growth in US states. The results suggest that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the magnitude and the persistence of the response to uncertainty shocks across states....
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quantity during estimation. Only a limited number of contributions to the literature estimate uncertainty and its macroeconomic …
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Structural VAR models require two ingredients: (i) Informational sufficiency, and (ii) a valid identification strategy. These conditions are unlikely to be met by small-scale recursively identified VAR models. I propose a Bayesian Proxy Factor-Augmented VAR (BP-FAVAR) to combine a large...
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The extraordinary events surrounding the Great Recession have cast a considerable doubt on the traditional sources of macroeconomic instability. In their place, economists have singled out financial and uncertainty shocks as potentially important drivers of economic fluctuations. Empirically...
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