Google It Up! A Google Trends-Based Uncertainty Index for the United States and Australia
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- Castelnuovo, Efrem & Tran, Trung Duc, 2017. "Google It Up! A Google Trends-based Uncertainty index for the United States and Australia," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 149-153.
- Castelnuovo, Efrem & Duc Tran, Trung, 2017. "Google It Up! A Google Trends-based Uncertainty Index for the United States and Australia," MPRA Paper 82297, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Efrem Castelnuovo & Trung Duc Tran, 2018. "Google it up! A Google Trends-based Uncertainty Index for the United States and Australia," "Marco Fanno" Working Papers 0223, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno".
- Efrem Castelnuovo & Trung Duc Tran, 2017. "Google It Up! A Google Trends-based Uncertainty Index for the United States and Australia," CESifo Working Paper Series 6695, CESifo Group Munich.
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- Giovanni Caggiano & Efrem Castelnuovo & Juan Manuel Figueres, 2017.
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Keywords
Google Trends Uncertainty indices; uncertainty shocks; unemployment dynamics; VAR analysis;JEL classification:
- C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2018-05-28 (All new papers)
- NEP-MAC-2018-05-28 (Macroeconomics)
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