FRENCH ROAST: CONSUMER RESPONSE TO INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT—EVIDENCE FROM SUPERMARKET SCANNER DATA

Do consumers boycott in response to international conflict? We show that during the 2003 U.S.-France dispute over the Iraq War, the market share of French-sounding, U.S. supermarket brands declined. The dispute was a negative shock to U.S. consumers' associations with France. Frenchsounding bra...

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Published in:The review of economics and statistics 2016-03, Vol.98 (1), p.42-56
Main Authors: Pandya, Sonal S., Venkatesan, Rajkumar
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Behavioural economics
Boycotts
Consumer behavior
Consumer behaviour
Consumers
France
International disputes
Market shares
Studies
Supermarkets
United States
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