Economic policy uncertainty effects for forecasting future real economic activity |
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Authors: | Juha Junttila Juuso Vataja |
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Institution: | School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland |
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Abstract: | Recently introduced measures for economic policy uncertainty (EPU), included in the data from 1997 to 2016, have a role in forecasting out-of-sample values for future real economic activity for both the euro area and UK economies. The inclusion of EPU measures, either for the US, the UK or for overall European economies, improves the forecasting ability of models based on standard financial market information, especially for the period before the 2008 global crisis. However, during and after the crisis period, the slope of the yield curve and excess stock market returns improves the out-of-sample forecast performance the most compared to an AR-benchmark model. Hence, the EPU information is important in times of normal business cycles, but might contain similar information components to financial market return variables during turbulent crisis periods in the financial markets and in the real economy. |
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Keywords: | E17 E44 E66 G01 Financial markets Leading indicators Macroeconomic forecasting Time series Uncertainty |
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