 News shocks in the data: Olympic Games and their macroeconomic effects – ReplyViktoria Langer, Wolfgang Maennig and Felix Richter No 52, Working Papers from Chair for Economic Policy, University of Hamburg Abstract: Recent analyses relate increases in the growth rate of countries to anticipation effects caused by bidding for the Olympic Games, so called news shocks. We argue that these findings should be interpreted cautiously. First, these analyses may suffer from an omitted variable bias because they neglect key determinants of economic growth. Second, these analyses compare the bidders for the Olympic Games to all other countries in the world, which constitutes a comparison between groups that show large differences in their structural characteristics. We show that including established determinants of economic growth and comparing the bidders to a suitable control group may lead to a complete disappearance of the anticipated economic effects of Olympic Games. Keywords: Anticipated shock; Olympic Games; GDP growth; matching; mega event (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Hamburg Contemporary Economic Discussions, Issue 52, 2015 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hce:wpaper:052 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Chair for Economic Policy, University of Hamburg Contact information at EDIRC. |
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