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By Chris Dorrell Taylor Swift arrives in the UK for her Eras tour over the summer and economists will no doubt be very excited about it. In recent years they have started paying more attention to the impact that music concerts can have on the economy. Given the Eras tour is expected to be the highest grossing ever, could Swift’s arrival in the UK show up in national statistics? Economists at Nomura have put some thought into this vital question and concluded, unfortunately, that it probably won’t. The UK’s economy is simply too big to be impacted on a national scale by a few concerts, no matte…

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