aggregates. Unexpected shocks in LA EPU significantly dampen commercial relationships between Spain and LA countries. Spanish …

shocks in LA EPU dampen signicantly the commercial relationship between Spain and LA countries. Spanish firms decrease their …

gather and construct a wide range of proxy indicators of economic and economic policy uncertainty from Spain. We distinguish …

is applied to a corpus of French-language news to construct a century-long historical EPU index for the Canadian province … of Quebec. The relevance of the index is shown in a macroeconomic nowcasting experiment …

We develop and make available a new Cryptocurrency Uncertainty Index (UCRY) based on news coverage. Our UCRY Index … (UCRY Policy). We show that the constructed index has distinct movements around major events in cryptocurrency space. We … suggest that this index captures uncertainty beyond Bitcoin, and can be used for academic, policy, and practice …

An index number is a scalar-valued function of price and perhaps quantity data that supports the assessment of the … state or trend of an economy. Many researchers over the past 250 years have proposed diverse mathematical forms for index … numbers, and discussed criteria for their validity. In this paper we propose an additional criterion for evaluating an index …

We develop a monthly output index of the U.S. Transportation sector over 1980:1-2002:4 covering air, rail, water, truck … output index matches very well with the annual transportation output figures produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS … synchronized with the growth slowdowns rather than full-fledged recessions of the U.S. economy. The index has led the peaks and …

The Big Mac Index was introduced to (semi-humorously) test the theory of purchasing power parity and measure the … disparity in currency values. Instead, in this paper, we consider this index to find out the per capita real-income disparity …