Expectations, Beliefs and Behaviors during the Pandemic

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Chair:

Tao Wang

, Johns Hopkins University

Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic

Basit A. Khan Zafar

University of Michigan and NBER

Ester Faia

Goethe University-Frankfurt and CEPR

Andreas Fuster

EPFL, Swiss Finance Institute, and CEPR

Vincenzo Pezone

Goethe University-Frankfurt

Social Networks Shape Beliefs and Behavior: Evidence from Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Michael Bailey

Facebook

Drew M. Johnston

Harvard University

Martin Koenen

Harvard University

Theresa Kuchler

New York University, NBER, and CEPR

Johannes Stroebel

New York University, NBER, and CEPR

Dominic Russel

New York University

Information Resonance

Ulrike Malmendier

University of California-Berkeley

Laura Veldkamp

Columbia University

Learning from Friends in a Pandemic: Social Networks and the Macroeconomic Response of Consumption

Tao Wang

Johns Hopkins University

Christos Makridis

Arizona State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant(s)

Paola Sapienza

Northwestern University

Hunt Allcott

Microsoft Research

Thomas Graeber

Harvard Business School

Luigi Pistaferri

Stanford University