Adam Sheridan

Publications

Dynamic Spending Responses to Wealth Shocks: Evidence from Quasi-lotteries on the Stock Market

American Economic Review: Insights, Forthcoming

• Presentations: NBER Summer Institute on Public Economics, 2020; CEPR Household Finance Conference Rhodes 2019; CEPR Workshop on New Consumption Data, 2019

How do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Data Sets

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023

Consumer Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Bank Account Transaction Data

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022

Social distancing laws cause only small losses of economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scandinavia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020

• Coverage: The New York Times, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Economist, Die Welt, Bloomberg, ProMarket, Yahoo Finance
• Presentations: NBER Summer Institute on Household Finance, 2020;  HELP! (HEaLth and Pandemics) Econ Working Group, 2020
• Pre-print: Pandemic, Shutdown and Consumer Spending: Lessons from Scandinavian Policy Responses to COVID-19

The Distortive Effect of Too-Big-To-Fail: Evidence from the Danish Market for Retail Deposits

The Review of Financial Studies, 2019

Working Papers

Bailing out the Kids: New Evidence on Informal Insurance from One Billion Bank Transfers

• Coverage: The Economist, The Guardian
• Presentations: NBER Summer Institute on Public Economics, 2020; CEPR Household Finance Conference Rhodes 2019

Learning About Social Networks from Mobile Money Transfers

• Presentations: NABE TEC2019 (Poster), SODAS Data Sessions

Work in Progress

Peer Effects in Stock Market Investing

Other Writing

Tackling Financial Problems Can Require Non-Financial Solutions

MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Policy Brief, May 2017

Too-Big vs. Too-Frail?

MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Policy Brief, March 2017

Reforms in Higher Education = Higher Quality Provision and Better Informed Choice? 

Coauthor: Helen Simpson, Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Research in Public Policy, September 2013

Academic CV