Individuals who have experienced severe financial losses due to the coronavirus pandemic are significantly less willing to take risks. This particularly appears to be the case for households with a low income. On the contrary, other personality traits, such as patience and locus of control, remain unchanged following financial losses. These are the findings of a recent study by RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and ZEW Mannheim.
Coronavirus Crisis
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Coronavirus Crisis
Digitalisation
European Integration
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Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices Evidence from the Electricity Sector
Speaker: Ignacia Mercadal (School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, USA)
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets
Speaker: Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
Market Transparency and Consumer Search Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market
Speaker: Simon Martin (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California's Carbon Market
Speaker: Danae Hernández-Cortés (University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, USA)
Coping with Post-COVID Sovereign Debt Levels in the Euro Area ZEW and EconPol Research Seminar (Special Policy Session)
Speakers: Cinzia Alcidi (Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium, and LUISS School of European Political Economy, Rome, Italy), Volker Wieland (Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and German Council of Economic Experts), Friedrich Heinemann (ZEW)
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