Source:
Baker, Scott R.
Source:
Bloom, Nick
Source:
Davis, Stephen J.
Release:
Economic Policy Uncertainty
Units:
Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:
Monthly
Notes:
The Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 20 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States..
For additional details, including an analysis of the performance of the model, see Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis (2016), "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty"
Suggested Citation:
Baker, Scott R., Bloom, Nick and Davis, Stephen J.,
Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: Current Price Adjusted GDP [GEPUCURRENT],
retrieved from FRED,
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis;
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GEPUCURRENT,
March 2, 2021.