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| Chiara Casoli, Luca Pedini and Francesco Valentini |
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| ''Do Covid-19 mobility restrictions affect economic uncertainty in Italy? Evidence from a SVAR approach'' |
| ( 2021, Vol. 41 No.4 ) |
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| The implications of Covid-19 are severe not only in terms of healthcare, but also from a socio-economic perspective. However, its impact on economic systems and the evaluation of related policy decisions are difficult to assess due to lack of related data. One possibility is to
focus on the epidemic induced economic uncertainty: in this article we investigate the links between individual mobility limitations due to the pandemic outbreak and the resulting economic distrust in Italy, measured with an ad hoc Google Trend index. We propose an analysis based on Structural Vector Autoregressive models discovering a persistent surge
in economic uncertainty as a response to Covid-19 and mobility shocks. |
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| Keywords: Covid-19, mobility restrictions, economic uncertainty, structural vector autoregression |
JEL: E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General
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| Manuscript Received : Jul 05 2021 | | Manuscript Accepted : Dec 29 2021 |
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