Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227878 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers No. 160
Publisher: 
Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen
Abstract: 
After 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, instead of conventional uncertainty shocks. In the quantitative analysis, uncertainty is informed by firm-level probability distributions on the expected effect of Brexit on sales.
Subjects: 
Recent economic and monetary trends
Productivity and competitiveness
JEL: 
E22
E32
E65
O40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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