Observations

Dec 2020: 182.51218

Updated: Feb 18, 2021 8:01 AM CST

Units:

Index,

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Monthly

Notes

Title	Release Dates

Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for Korea	2017-02-01	2019-10-08
Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for South Korea	2019-10-09	2021-02-18

Source

Baker, Scott R.	2017-02-01	2019-10-08
Bloom, Nick	2017-02-01	2019-10-08
Davis, Steven J.	2017-02-01	2019-10-08
Baker, Scott R.	2019-10-09	2021-02-18
Bloom, Nick	2019-10-09	2021-02-18
Davis, Steven J.	2019-10-09	2021-02-18

Release

Economic Policy Uncertainty	2017-02-01	2021-02-18

Units

Index	2017-02-01	2021-02-18

Frequency

Monthly	2017-02-01	2021-02-18

Seasonal Adjustment

Not Seasonally Adjusted	2017-02-01	2021-02-18

Notes

For additional details, including an analysis of the performance of the model, see: Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis (2012), “Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty,” (http://www.policyuncertainty.com/media/BakerBloomDavis.pdf)	2017-02-01	2019-10-08
Effective September 2016, the Donga Ilbo newspaper was dropped from the set of newspapers used to construct this index. The new version of the index is spliced to the old version based on their overlap from January to August 2016. For further explanation, please see the source's page on the South Korea Monthly Index (https://www.policyuncertainty.com/korea_monthly.html). For additional details, including an analysis of the performance of the model, see Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis (2012), "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty" (http://www.policyuncertainty.com/media/BakerBloomDavis.pdf)	2019-10-09	2021-02-18

Release Tables

Economic Policy Uncertainty