A5101414777- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Housing Market and Economics
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Federal Reserve
2020-2024
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
2020-2024
University of South Alabama
2022
We explore a new source of data on layoffs: timely 8-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. develop measures both number reported layoff events affected workers. These series are highly correlated business cycle other indicators. Linking firm-level WARN notices suggests that sometimes available before notices, preliminary regression results suggest our useful for forecasting. also document industry composition specific areas where shares diverge.
Industry concentration—the share of sales or output accounted for by the largest firms within an industry—has received widespread attention recently, in part because concentration has generally risen recent decades (figure 1). Measurement challenges are at core concentration-based inquiry: industry is one lowest-frequency business statistics produced U.S. statistical agencies, with data being released only twice per decade as Economic Censuses.
<ns3:p>Electricity is used by all businesses in the United States. During quickly moving economic shocks—for example, a pandemic or natural disaster—changes electricity consumption can provide insight to policymakers before traditional survey-based metrics, which lag weeks months behind conditions and typically only show snapshot of when survey was conducted.</ns3:p>
We present an indicator of job loss derived from Twitter data, based on a fine-tuned neural network with transfer learning to classify if tweet is job-loss related or not. show that our Twitter-based measure well-correlated and predictive other measures unemployment available in the official statistics added benefits real-time availability daily frequency. These findings are especially strong for period Pandemic Recession, when continues track well but where like insurance claims provided...