Household Financial Decision Making Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household investment decisions using a novel survey conducted by the Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance. We use linear probability and probit models to analyze the effects of COVID-19 at the household level. Our results show that households who know someone infected with COVID-19 lose confidence in the economy. They are more likely to change their risk behavior and become risk-averse. Further, COVID-19 increases the probability that a household will change its investment portfolio. More specifically, it causes a 9.15% decrease in the total investment amount.

Is there a pattern in how COVID-19 has affected Australia’s stock returns?

“…In closing this introduction, we note that research on COVID-19 and economic and financial systems is at a nascent stage. This literature has 2020); household decision making (Yue et al 2020); and firm performance (Shen et al 2020;Fu and Shen 2020).…”

A Note on the Asian Market Volatility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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