2. Literature Review At present, plenty of literature focuses on panic buying behavior after disasters. Panic buying leads to an imbalance in commodity purchasing, and intervention is needed to reduce its harm [10–12]. Herbon and Kogan [13] state that competition cannot suppress panic and will...
The university's Institutional Review Board approved this project as protocol 14-413 in April of 2015 (in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki) and we conducted the experiment in November of 2015. Given that food is a private good (at the retail level, albeit perhaps not in a home ...