House Hunting in a Period of Social Distancing
Famiglietti, Matthew; Garriga, Carlos (2020-04-01)
Lower housing demand due to quarantine orders, slowing price growth and mortgage originations, and a historically high housing supply are all hitting the economy at the same time.
On the Economy

Social Distancing and Contact-Intensive Occupations
Famiglietti, Matthew; Leibovici, Fernando; Santacreu, Ana Maria (2020-03-24)
Some jobs certainly require more close interaction with other folks than other jobs. Which occupations are the most interactive, and which states have higher shares of these jobs?
On the Economy

Working Paper
Social Distancing, Quarantine, Contact Tracing, and Testing: Implications of an Augmented SEIR Model
Hornstein, Andreas (2020-05-08)
This paper modifies the basic SEIR model to incorporate demand for health care. The model is used to study the relative effectiveness of policy interventions that include social distancing, quarantine, contact tracing, and random testing. A version of the model that is calibrated to the Ferguson et al. (2020) model suggests that permanent, high-intensity social distancing reduces mortality rates and peak ICU demand substantially, but that a policy that relaxes high-intensity social distancing over time in the context of a permanent efficient quarantine regime is even more effective and also ...
Working Paper , Paper 20-04

How Closing Restaurants and Hotels Spills Over to Total Employment
Sanchez, Juan M.; Mather, Ryan; Garriga, Carlos (2020-04-02)
Due to the increasingly interconnected nature of our economy, losses in one sector could quickly spread to other sectors.
On the Economy