“…The second state variable is the macroeconomic uncertainty index (U) proposed in Jurado et al (2015). 12 Macroeconomic uncertainty has recently been identified as an important contributor to business cycle fluctuations (Bloom, 2009, Ludvigson, Ma, andNg, 2019) and asset prices (Drechsler, 2013, Bali, Brown, and Tang, 2017, Borup and Schütte, 2020. Moreover, it has recently been used to study state-dependent performance of affine term structure models (Sarno et al, 2016).…”