News Shocks in the data : Olympic games and their macroeconomic effects
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Journal of money, credit and banking, 2015, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 1339-1367
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BRÜCKNER, Markus, PAPPA, Evi, News Shocks in the data : Olympic games and their macroeconomic effects, Journal of money, credit and banking, 2015, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 1339-1367 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/39021
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We examine the macroeconomic effects of bidding for the Olympic Games using panel data for 188 countries during the period 1950–2009. Our findings confirm that economies react to news shocks: investment, consumption, and output significantly increase 9 to 7 years before the actual event in bidding countries. Hosting countries also experience significant increases in investment, consumption, and output 5 to 2 years before the hosting of the Games. Mapping the Olympics into a macroeconomic model, we show that we can match our empirical findings if we assume that an Olympic bid represents news about increases in government investment.
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Article first published online: 29 SEP 2015.