Lay actions in the face of crisis—Swedish citizens’ actions in response to the global financial crisis of 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2012.08.007
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Financial crisis; Risk perception; Laypeople; Action; Logistic regression;JEL classification:
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
- H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
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