Hauzenberger, Niko; Böck, Maximilian; Pfarrhofer, Michael - 2018
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 … quantity during estimation. Only a limited number of contributions to the literature estimate uncertainty and its macroeconomic …