The consumer city crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic

Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, I have been focused on understanding the impacts of this virus on people’s behavior, mainly in consumer cities. Several studies have looked for social patterns changes and what the “new normal” would look like over the past two years. We decided to use the same methodological approach that we have used for several of my research projects: a very well-defined theoretical framework that supports our hypotheses through the thorough analysis of large datasets. Today, I want to share with you one of my latest papers: “Demand for Social Interactions: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was recently published in the Journal of Regional Science.