Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/327113 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 25-045
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
Abstract: 
We study how far-right mass rallies affect people's views about a city and thus location choices of nationals. To this end, we first exploit that the city of Dresden (Germany) unexpectedly experienced such rallies at the turn of the year 2014/15. Results from dyadic difference-in-differences and Synthetic Control analyses suggest that the number of (young) German adults who moved from another region to Dresden declined by around 10% due to the far-right mass protests. We complement our first analysis with a conjoint experiment where participants decide between two hypothetical cities. This experiment confirms that far-right rallies have a dissuasive effect and shows that left-wing people react stronger than right-wing people. It also reveals that far-right protests cause security concerns and concerns about finding like-minded people. The latter reaction is only observed for people that do not support the far right.
Subjects: 
far-right movements
location decisions
internal migration
political protest
populism
regional competition for talent
reputation of cities
university students
JEL: 
D72
I23
O15
P00
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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