Risk Preferences at the Time of COVID-19: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students
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- Cipriani, Marco & Angrisani, Marco & Guarino, Antonio & Kendall, Ryan & Ortiz de Zarate Pina, Julen, 2020. "Risk Preferences at the Time of COVID-19: An Experiment with Professional Traders and Students," CEPR Discussion Papers 15108, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
financial markets professional; experimental economics; COVID-19; risk aversion;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- N0 - Economic History - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2020-06-08 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2020-06-08 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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