Rather doomed than uncertain: risk attitudes and transmissive behavior under asymptomatic infection

DOI10.1007/S00199-022-01448-YzbMATH Open1520.91178OpenAlexW4286750326MaRDI QIDQ6113808FDOQ6113808

Authors: Konstantin Matthies, Flavio Toxvaerd 

Publication date: 9 August 2023

Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-022-01448-y

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zbMATH Keywords

COVID-19risk aversionasymptomatic infectioneconomic epidemiologyrational fatalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Utility theory (91B16) Experimental work for problems pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance (91-05)

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