My paper analyzes the link between immigration and support for anti-immigrant parties in Europe. I assemble a unique data set on the share of foreigners for 356 regions in 26 European countries and construct a novel scale for the anti-immigrant position of political parties. I find that...

Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...

Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...

This dissertation addresses two different kinds of agents, professional forecasters and manufacturing firms, and their means of dealing with information in forming expectations. The first two parts evaluate the macroeconomic forecasting performance of component-wise boosting, a variable...

Introduction / Laura Basu, Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- The UK experience. The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis / Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- Media amnesia and the crisis / Laura Basu -- Austerity, the media and the UK public / Mike Berry...

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the media as messenger; Part I The UK experience; 1 The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis; 2 Media amnesia and the crisis; 3...