a column by Tim Besley, Thiemo Fetzer and Hannes Mueller for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Reporting on violence draws attention to countries not typically covered by international news outlets. This leads to a ‘bad news’ bias, which can affect not only how people view these countries, but whether they choose to visit.
Using aggregated spending data to proxy tourist activity, this column documents a robust relationship between the intensity of reporting on violence and subsequent drops in tourist spending, suggesting that a bad news bias can have serious economic consequences for the countries that suffer from it.
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Well worth the time I spent reading this. Illuminating graphs too (which I really like).
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bad_news_bias, terrorism, tourism,
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