The current coronavirus pandemic is a recent example of how an unpredictable event can cause uncertainty and affect … Uncertainty Index, developed by the three economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis, try to capture … perceptions of uncertainty and use them to generate predictions for the economic future. The index is based on a search term that …

example, we update our Uncertainty Perception Indicator (Müller and Hornig 2020), setting it on a firmer footing by enlarging … or so incalculable politics was the main driver of economic uncertainty perception. Now truly exogenous developments …