Webinar Series

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Pandemic

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May 2020

Sudden, large-scale and diffuse human migration can amplify localized outbreaks of disease into widespread epidemics1,2,3,4. Rapid and accurate tracking of aggregate population flows may therefore be epidemiologically informative. Here we use 11,478,484 counts of mobile phone data from individuals l...
Keywords: COVID-19, Population flow, Spatio-temporal distrubution, China
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Webinar Series

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Pandemic

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Apr 2020

We study the role of social connections in compliance of U.S. households with mobility restrictions imposed in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, using aggregated and anonymized Facebook data on social connections and mobile phone data for measuring social distancing at th...
Keywords: social networks, non-pharmaceutical interventions, COVID-19
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Using transaction-level credit card spending from a large US financial institution, we show that disaggregated sales provide accurate and persistent signals of customer demand relevant to a firm’s stock pricing. After controlling for earnings and sales surprises, one inter-quintile increase in the...
Keywords: return predictability, informed investors, disaggregated sales, customer demand, Credit Cards, Consumption, Household Finance, financial institution, big data
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Annual Conference

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Real Estate and Urban Economics

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May 2019

We study how capital flows affects German cities’ GDP growth depending on the state of their real estate markets. Identification exploits a policy framework assigning refugees to cities on a quasi-random basis and variation in nondevelopable area for the construction of an exposure measure to real...
Keywords: Cross-border flows, capital flows, Collateral, City Business Cycles, Credit, Germany, GIPS Spread, Real estate, tangible assets
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Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2015

This study evaluates the impact of a randomized control trial (RCT) in China that introduced externally funded village credit funds in poor, rural villages. In contrast to recent RCT-based studies that have failed to find evidence of significant increases in income from microfinance interventions, w...
Keywords: Microfinance, program evaluations, randomized control trial
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