..., such as COVID-19 lockdowns, significantly impact societal and human behaviors (e.g. Tuomainen and Candolin, 2011 ; Bargain and Aminjonov, 2020 ; Ikeda et al., 2023). Corresponding author Marcel Freyschmidt marcel.freyschmidt@zhaw.ch 02 02 2025 04 10 2025 02 11 2025 ©...

... an increase in risk aversion and patience after Covid-19, mediated by diminishing cultural differences. b) With change point detection we show that the shift from regional to uniform nationwide restrictions during the pandemic altered social behavior and beliefs (SBB). c) With propensity score matching...

...Ritwik Banerjee; Priyama Majumdar; Satarupa Mitra Exponential growth bias ( EGB ), the tendency to underestimate exponential trends, has been linked to lower compliance with safety guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to use an online experiment with 631 Indian participants...

... index and its constituent stocks between 1 January 2016 and 30 April 2023, further splitting the data into pre- and post-uncertain time periods, i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine war to identify overconfidence bias and the disposition effect. The results show investors in the China...

...Giuseppe Danese; Luigi Mittone The phenomenon of household products disappearing from supermarket shelves after the COVID-19 outbreak has garnered strong attention in the media. After a negative shock, household products can be viewed as a common-pool resource subject to a rule of capture...

...Shinsuke Ikeda; Eiji Yamamura; Yoshiro Tsutsui Based on unique panel data from a five-wave internet survey in Japan, we show how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affects people’s prospect-theory risk preferences, especially in the loss domain. The panel analysis indicates...

...Corrado Di Guilmi; Giorgos Galanis; Giorgos Baskozos Early evidence during the first phase of the COVID-19 outbreak shows that individuals facing the risk of infection increased their levels of physical distancing even before relevant measures were imposed. Not taking individual behaviour...

..., G. Galanis, D. Tavani and R. Veneziani Licensed re-use rights only COVID-19 pandemic economic activity distribution public policy But the proposal of effective and equitable policy measures to be adopted here and now in order to tackle the emergency is only one reason...

...Xenia Matschke; Marc Oliver Rieger We study the changes in greeting behavior caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that after the use of handshakes and social kissing as forms of greeting decreased drastically, they became common again already a few months after the outbreak. Nevertheless...

...Tank Prasad Neupane It has been reported but still not verified why COVID-19 infection transmitted differentially across societies. This paper intends to investigate the association of cultural orientation to the differential spread of present pandemic. Initially, Ordinary Least Squares estimation...

...Marc Oliver Rieger; Mei Wang We measure trends in activity patterns during the “lockdown” of the COVID-19 pandemics, using the Apple Maps Mobility Trends Report, the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports and data from a worldwide online survey with more than 100,000 participants. We focus...

... communication and instruction in proper use of a medical mask to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. © 2020 I. Asanov and S. Vannuccini 2020 I. Asanov and S. Vannuccini Licensed re-use rights only Medical mask Surgical mask COVID-19 Risk perception D01 D81 D91 December 12, 2019...