Alternative investment behavior of households during crises: The effects of the COVID-19 shock on gold purchases in India
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Gold; Safe haven; COVID-19; Quasi-natural experiment; Gold pledging; Gold sales;All these keywords.
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- E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment
- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
- Q31 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
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