this, limited research has investigated fear of cryptocurrency-based victimization, or the role that financial or … literacy plays in both personal and altruistic fear of financial and cryptoeconomic crimes. Using a sample of college … not significantly associated with all modalities of fear of crime investigated, with the exception of altruistic fear of …

We explore the impact of fear on demand for government intervention. Our empirical strategy takes advantage of a unique … virus, thereby providing short-term exogenous variation in the fear of infection. Using a shift-share instrument based on … this media intervention, we estimate a causally positive effect of fear on popular approval of a variety of government …