کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5058394 | 1476625 | 2016 | 4 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- We investigate how US partisan conflict affects the Euro area economy.
- We document a negative and significant effect on European industrial production.
- The effect is deeper and more persistent than a US policy uncertainty shock.
- US partisan conflict is a significant source for European variable fluctuations.
This paper highlights the international transmission of political uncertainty originated from a US partisan conflict shock, a newly identified shock that transmits a type of uncertainty beyond the economic policy uncertainty spillovers identified by Colombo (2013). Using the recently developed US Partisan Conflict Index (USPC) developed by Azzimonti (2014), we find that a one standard deviation USPC shock leads to a 0.2 percent decline in European industrial production. We also show that, compared with US policy uncertainty shocks, a shock to US partisan conflict creates deeper and more persistent spill-over effects to the Euro area.
Journal: Economics Letters - Volume 138, January 2016, Pages 64-67