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Economic Policy Uncertainty in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Bernard Njindan Iyke

    (Centre for Financial Econometrics, Deakin University, Australia)

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We examine the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in five leading Asian economies, namely China, India, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. We find that the pandemic has a positive and statistically significant impact on EPU in China and Korea. This finding survives robustness checks.

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  • Bernard Njindan Iyke, 2021. "Economic Policy Uncertainty in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic," Asian Economics Letters, Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association, vol. 1(2), pages 1-4.
    • Handle: RePEc:ayb:jrnael:13
    DOI: 2021/06/27
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    Keywords

    asia; economic policy uncertainty; covid-19;
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    JEL classification:

    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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