Induced Civic Pride and Integration
利用2006年世界杯前后调查数据，发现主办大型赛事能提升公民估值，且集体经历激发的自豪感加速了东德与西德偏好的趋同。
Does a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega event depend on past experience with implied benefits? Applying data from ex-ante and ex-post queries, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 to address this question. The ex-post increase in valuation is shown to be owing to citizens requiring an involving experience. We also use the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We find that civic pride induced by collective experience can considerably accelerate the convergence of East Germans' preferences towards those of West Germans.