The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics

Output fluctuations in the G7 are characterised using a VAR model of countries' actual and expected outputs and uncertainty over these. New measures are developed to quantify the relative importance of economic prospects-versus-uncertainty, global-versus-national effects and fundamentals-versus...

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Main Authors: Garratt, Anthony, Lee, Kevin, Shields, Kalvinder
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Published: Wiley 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42002/
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description Output fluctuations in the G7 are characterised using a VAR model of countries' actual and expected outputs and uncertainty over these. New measures are developed to quantify the relative importance of economic prospects-versus-uncertainty, global-versus-national effects and fundamentals-versus-sentiment for countries' persistent output movements. National and global contributions are found to be equally important across the G7 although considerable differences exist between countries. Uncertainty, and especially cross-country uncertainty, is important in propagating the effects of shocks and generates around 20% of countries' persistent output movements on average. Fundamentals dominate output movements although, with an 80:20 split, sentiment plays a non-negligible role.
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spelling nottingham-420022020-05-04T19:35:30Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42002/ The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics Garratt, Anthony Lee, Kevin Shields, Kalvinder Output fluctuations in the G7 are characterised using a VAR model of countries' actual and expected outputs and uncertainty over these. New measures are developed to quantify the relative importance of economic prospects-versus-uncertainty, global-versus-national effects and fundamentals-versus-sentiment for countries' persistent output movements. National and global contributions are found to be equally important across the G7 although considerable differences exist between countries. Uncertainty, and especially cross-country uncertainty, is important in propagating the effects of shocks and generates around 20% of countries' persistent output movements on average. Fundamentals dominate output movements although, with an 80:20 split, sentiment plays a non-negligible role. Wiley 2018-05-03 Article PeerReviewed Garratt, Anthony, Lee, Kevin and Shields, Kalvinder (2018) The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics. Canadian Journal of Economics, 51 (2). pp. 391-418. ISSN 1540-5982 Uncertainty Sentiment Fundamentals Survey Expectations Global Shocks National Shocks https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/caje.12325 doi:10.1111/caje.12325 doi:10.1111/caje.12325
spellingShingle Uncertainty
Sentiment
Fundamentals
Survey Expectations
Global Shocks
National Shocks
Garratt, Anthony
Lee, Kevin
Shields, Kalvinder
The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics
title The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics
title_full The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics
title_fullStr The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics
title_full_unstemmed The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics
title_short The role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in G7 output dynamics
title_sort role of uncertainty, sentiment and cross-country interactions in g7 output dynamics
topic Uncertainty
Sentiment
Fundamentals
Survey Expectations
Global Shocks
National Shocks
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