Anti-pandemic restrictions, uncertainty and sentiment in seven countries

We investigate how the stringency of government anti-pandemic policy measures might affect economic policy uncertainty in countries with different degrees of press freedom, various press reporting styles and writing conventions. We apply a text-based measure of uncertainty using data from over 400,0...

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Published in:Economic change and restructuring 2023-02, Vol.56 (1), p.1-27
Main Authors: Charemza, Wojciech, Makarova, Svetlana, Rybiński, Krzysztof
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Conventions
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