Atkinson, Tyler; Plante, Michael; Richter, Alexander W.; … - 2020
Macroeconomic uncertainty—the conditional volatility of the unforecastable component of a future value of a time series … assumption, this paper shows there is usually little, if any, endogenous variation in output uncertainty, and first moment shocks … uncertainty compared to the data. Estimating several variants of a nonlinear real business cycle model reveals the data strongly …