Framing of economic news and policy support during a pandemic: Evidence from a survey experiment |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy;2. Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences, L''Aquila, Italy;1. London School of Economics and, Political Science (LSE), Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, London, England, UK;2. Research Institute of Industrial, Economics (IFN), Box 55665, 102 15, Stockholm, Sweden;1. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany;2. Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | We examine how news outlets’ communication of macroeconomic information affects policy support during the COVID-19 crisis. In our survey experiment based on a representative sample from Germany, respondents are exposed to an expert forecast of GDP growth. Individuals either receive no information, the baseline forecast, or real-world media frames of the same forecast. We find that positive framing of economic growth increases policy support. This effect is stronger for respondents with more pessimistic macroeconomic expectations. Negatively framed economic news are perceived as more credible and hence less surprising in times of recession, not translating into political opinion. |
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| Keywords: | Expectation formation Information experiment Media framing Macroeconomic information Policy support COVID-19 crisis |
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