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100 _aFaccini, Renato Palombo, Edoardo
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245 _aNews uncertainty in Brexit United Kingdom
260 _aThe American Economic Review: Insights
300 _a3(2), Jun, 2021: p.149-164
520 _aAfter the Brexit referendum, the behavior of the UK economy defied widespread expectations, as it did not exhibit a V-shaped recession but a slow decline in production. We show that this pattern of propagation arises when uncertainty is about future, rather than current, fundamentals and if the expected duration of uncertainty is sufficiently long. We reach this conclusion within the confines of a heterogeneous firms model featuring news uncertainty rather than conventional uncertainty shocks. In the quantitative analysis, uncertainty is informed by firm-level probability distributions on the expected effect of Brexit on sales. – Reproduced
773 _aThe American Economic Review: Insights
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