In this paper we estimate a Bayesian vector autoregressive model with factor stochastic volatility in the error term to … assess the effects of an uncertainty shock in the Euro area. This allows us to treat macroeconomic uncertainty as a latent … consequences jointly, and most are based on single country models. We analyze the special case of a shock restricted to the Euro …

, from a copula framework, we obtain the conditional expectation and measure the exchange rate contribution to shock …