Politics driving personal economic decisions amid COVID-19
Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 12:20
in Mathematics & Economics
In a normal election year, politics are often driven by economics. But as COVID-19 spurred record job losses and stock market sell-offs, Tony Cookson—an associate professor at CU Boulder's Leeds School of Business—and other researchers noticed something curious: political persuasion was driving a wave of stock market optimism.