This paper proposes a novel approach to decompose the Economic Policy Uncertainty indices of European countries into the common and country-specific components using the time-varying total connectedness. Then, by employing a Bayesian panel VAR model, we assess how common and country-specific...

Biographical note: Peter Engelhard (Dr. rer. pol.) arbeitet als Volkswirt im Vorstandsstab eines deutschen Industriekonzerns. Sein privates und ehrenamtliches Interesse gilt der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Ideengeschichte.

In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere.