This paper focuses on the impact of economic policy uncertainty on risk spillovers within the Eurozone and contributes to these two growing literatures. To this end, we adapt the two-step procedure developed by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2011) in the framework of financial systemic risk to...

Although emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the global recession a decade ago relatively well, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the room for monetary and fiscal policies to respond to...

Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...

Turkish economic growth depends on capital inflows and access to cheap credit sources. Once the global financial conditions tightened in 2018, Turkey was among the emerging markets that suffered the most. This article analyses the making of Turkey's economic crisis in 2018-2019, while...

In the open economy control conditions, the government's main concern should be ensurance of macroeconomic stabilization. One of real tools for achieving this goal is monetary and budgetary levers' combination, in which strong fiscal stimuls should be merged with monetary policy, although...

Purpose: We investigate the nature and degree of US economic policy uncertainty spillover on the stock markets of a group of nonconventional economies like the GCC countries, where risk-sharing based financial system is prominent and foreign investment, risk-free interest, derivatives, etc. are...

Disentangling demand and supply shocks has been widely explored in the literature in order to explain commodity price dynamics, especially in crude oil and copper markets. Meanwhile, the literature on the role of the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) in predicting commodity price and volatility...

This study derives an optimal macroeconomic policy combination for financial sector stability in the United Kingdom by employing a New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (NK-DSGE) framework. The empirical results obtained show that disciplined fiscal and accommodative monetary...

The Brazilian economy in 2015 was afflicted by a lethal combination of decelerating activity and accelerating inflation. Expectations for 2016 are equally or even more adverse, since the effects of rising unemployment emerge only after a lag. The domestic debate has pitted analysts who believe...

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...