Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of refugees into Europe. The different departure points along the Turkish coast generate exogenous variation in refugee arrivals across Greek islands. We construct a new dataset on the number and nature of...

This paper explores whether the massive arrival of refugees at Greek islands has had an impact on natives' voting behavior. Our results show a positive and significant effect of refugees' presence on votes for the Greek extreme right party Golden Dawn. More precisely, we find that a 1% increase...

Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of refugees into Europe. The different departure points along the Turkish coast generate exogenous variation in refugee arrivals across Greek islands. We construct a new dataset on the number and nature of...