期刊名称：Economics Discussion Papers / Department of Economics, College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
出版社：University of Guelph
摘要：The annual Eurovision Song Contest provides a setting where Europeans can express
their sentiments about other countries without regard to political sensitivities. Analyzing
voting data from the 25 contests between 1981-2005, we ¯nd strong evidence for the existence
of clusters of countries that systematically exchange votes regardless of the quality of their
entries. Cultural, geographic, economic and political factors are important determinants of
point exchanges. Factors such as order of appearance, language and gender are also impor-
tant. There is also a substantial host country e®ect. We ¯nd some evidence of reciprocity
but no evidence of strategic voting
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