Do political conflicts influence daily consumption choices? Evidence from US-China relations
- Does political conflict with another country influence domestic consumers' daily consumption choices? We exploit the volatile US-China relations in 2018 and 2019 to analyze whether US consumers reduce their visits to Chinese restaurants when bilateral relations deteriorate. We measure the degree of political conflict through negativity in media reports and rely on smartphone location data to measure daily visits to over 190,000 US restaurants. A deterioration in US-China relations induces a significant decline in visits not only to Chinese but also to other foreign ethnic restaurants, while visits to typical American restaurants increase. We identify consumers' age, race, and cultural openness to moderate the strength of this ethnocentric effect.
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| Author: | Celina ProffenORCiD, Lukas JürgensmeierORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-834381 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.02.031 |
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of economic behavior and organization |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/03/07 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2024/03/07 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/03/25 |
| Tag: | Boycotts; Consumption; Ethnocentrism; Political conflict |
| Volume: | 220 |
| Page Number: | 15 |
| First Page: | 660 |
| Last Page: | 674 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
