Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/224604 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2020: Gender Economics
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
This article deals with the economic effects of xenophobic incidents. To analyze these effects, we focus on one important industry, namely tourism. Combining a novel, district-level data set on tourism in Germany with data on xenophobic activities, we find that xenophobic demonstrations lead to a decline in tourism numbers. A media analysis on German newspapers shows that the effect is driven by the media attention towards the incidents. Looking at Dresden as a case study with the Synthetic Control Method provides support for our results. The findings presented here highlight the direct economic costs of xenophobia and strengthen the political case to fight political extremism.
Subjects: 
Xenophobia
refugees
tourism
district-level data
JEL: 
F22
L83
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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