TY  - JOUR
A1  - Proffen, Celina
A1  - Jürgensmeier, Lukas
T1  - Do political conflicts influence daily consumption choices? Evidence from US-China relations
T2  - Journal of economic behavior and organization
N2  - 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.
KW  - Political conflict
KW  - Consumption
KW  - Boycotts
KW  - Ethnocentrism
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/83438
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-834381
SN  - 0167-2681
VL  - 220
SP  - 660
EP  - 674
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -