CEP | People | Lindsay Relihan

Biography

Dr Lindsay Relihan is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and an Associate at the CEP, Urban Programme. She is an applied microeconomist with interests in urban economics, household finance, and real estate. Her research agenda is focused on understanding how the spatial relationships between firms and consumers shape outcomes in consumer and credit markets.

Current areas of research include:

urban economics
real estate
household finance

Publications

CEP discussion papers

Is online retail killing coffee shops? Estimating the winners and losers of online retail using customer transaction microdata

Is online retail a complement or substitute to local offline economies? This paper provides the first evidence that consumers use time saved from online retail to increase their trips for time-intensive services like cof... Read more...

Lindsay E. Relihan

03 March 2022

CEP occasional papers

The early impact of Covid-19 on local commerce: changes in spend across neighborhoods and online

We document a number of striking features about the initial impact of the pandemic on local commerce across 16 US cities. There are two novel contributions from this analysis: exploration of neighborhood-level effects an... Read more...

Diana Farrell, Lindsay E. Relihan, Marvin W. Ward Jr. and Chris W. Wheat

11 June 2020

CEP discussion papers

Affordability, financial innovation and the start of the housing boom

At their peak in 2005, roughly 60 percent of all purchase mortgage loans originated in the United States contained at least one non-traditional feature. These features, which allowed borrowers easier access to credit thr... Read more...

Jane K. Dokko, Benjamin J. Keys and Lindsay E. Relihan

28 March 2019