Uncertainty Indices for Greece

We are pleased to host several indices of Economic Policy Uncertainty and related concepts for Greece that were concurrently developed by two independent research teams:

The team of Stilianos Fountas, Panagiota Karatasi and Paraskevi Tzika developed an index of Economic Policy Uncertainty for Greece that runs from January 1998 to the present.

The team of Gikas Hardouvelis, Georgios Karalas, Dimitrios Karanastasis and Panagiotis Samartzis developed several indices of Economic Policy Uncertainty for Greece that run from January 1998 to the present: Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), a broader index of Economic Uncertainty (EU), plus a number of category-specific EPU sub-indices related to Fiscal Policy (EPUF), Monetary Policy (EPUM), Currency Policy (EPUC), Banking Policy (EPUB) and Pension Policy uncertainty (EPUP). Their indices utilize data from four Greek newspapers.

Both teams follow the newspaper-based methods in "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty" by Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis.

Interested data users should click on the links above for data and additional information.