The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty in the United States on stock market performance in the European Union, Croatia, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. The analyses of monthly returns on the major stock market indices in these countries from 1985:2 to...

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty in the United States on stock market performance in Canada and Mexico. Using monthly returns of the Canada S&P/TSX-300 Total Return Index from 1985:2 to 2012:5 and Mexico SE Total Return Index from 1988:1 to 2012:5, this study...

This study investigates if the change in economic policy uncertainty in the United States has any impact on the stock market performance in Australia and New Zealand. The results from the analysis of data of monthly changes in economic policy uncertainty in the US and monthly returns on All...

This paper examines the impulse response function of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and stock market returns in the Eurozone. Using a vector autoregression analysis, this study explores how the Eurozone's stock market responds to the impulse of economic policy uncertainty; a response feedback...

Economic uncertainty is closely followed and analysed by businesses, policy makers and academic scholars because the world economies have now become very closely interconnected more than ever. This study is to examine a relationship between economic policy uncertainty between the United States...

This paper investigates how stock market returns respond to economic policy uncertainty shocks. Based on the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis of the monthly changes in economic policy uncertainty index in the United States and CRSP value-weighted index from 1985:M2 to 2012:M6, the results...

This study examines if economic policy uncertainty in the U.S. has any effect on the returns on stock markets in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. The current study also investigates how stock market returns in the four countries respond to the U.S. economic policy...