Exports and Olympic Games: Is there a Signal Effect?
14 Pages Posted: 29 Sep 2011 Last revised: 1 Feb 2012
Date Written: January 2012
Abstract
Rose & Spiegel (2011) find that Olympic Games host countries experience significant positive, lasting effects on exports. They interpret their results as an indication that countries use the hosting of such events to signal openness and competitiveness. We challenge these empirical findings on the grounds that a comparison of structurally different and non-matching groups of countries might suffer from a selection bias. We demonstrate that with an appropriate matching and treatment methodology, the significant Olympic effect disappears.
Keywords: export, Olympic Games, international trade, treatment, matching
JEL Classification: F1, L83
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