Reports from Federal Reserve Bank Provide New Insights into COVID-19 (Risk Preferences At the Time of Covid-19: an Experiment With Professional Traders and Students): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2026 JUL 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at CDC & FDA Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Coronavirus - COVID-19. According to news reporting originating from New York City, New York, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “We study whether the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted risk preferences, comparing the results of experiments conducted before and during the outbreak.”

Financial support for this research came from UCL, UK.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Federal Reserve Bank, “In each experiment, we elicit risk preferences from two sample groups: professional traders and undergraduate students. We find that, on average, risk preferences have remained constant for both pools of participants.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The findings of our paper support the traditional view that risk preferences are stable and not affected by economic or social circumstances.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Risk Preferences At the Time of Covid-19: an Experiment With Professional Traders and Students. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2026;50. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Marco Cipriani, Federal Reserve Bank, 33 Liberty St, New York, NY 10045, United States. Additional authors for this research include Marco Angrisani, Antonio Guarino, Julen Ortiz De Zarate Pina and Ryan Kendall.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101185. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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