Research

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Published and accepted papers

• The Geography of Travel Behavior in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Jeff Brinkman)
  [forthcoming, Journal of Urban Economics: Insights]
  working paper verison here, and nontechnical summary there
  Related article in Economic Insights (FRB Philadelphia)

• Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble (with Patrick Bayer and James Roberts)
  American Economic Review, 2021 (111:2)
  See also NBER WP 22065

• Speculators and Middlemen: The Strategy and Performance of Investors in the Housing Market (with Patrick Bayer, Chris Geissler, and James Roberts)
  Review of Financial Studies, 2020 (33:11)
  See also NBER WP 16784

Working Papers

• Fast Locations and Slowing Labor Mobility (with Patrick Coate)
  
  FRB Philadelphia WP 19-49, and nontechnical summary here
  coverage in The Economist
  Related article in Economic Insights (FRB Philadelphia)

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• Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Role of Zoning (with Spencer Banzhaf)

• The Role of Housing in Carbon Emissions [R&R, Journal of Urban Economics]

• Cities and Labor Market Dynamics (working paper with appendices) (computational appendix only) [new version coming soon]

• Coming and Going: Spatial Heterogeneity in Gross Population Flows [R&R, Review of Regional Studies]

Work in progress

• Expecting an Expressway (with Jeff Brinkman and Jeff Lin) [slides here]

• Real Options in Spatial Equilbrium (with Jungsoo Yoo)

• Trapped by History: Redevelopment Frictions in Urban Growth 

• Capital in Trade: On the Use of State Variables in Spatial Equilibrium Models

• Housing Investors' Use of Leverage (with Ben McCartney and Manuel Adelino)