Billy Ferguson

Billy Ferguson
PhD Student, Economic Analysis & Policy
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Billy Ferguson

I am an environmental economist primarily interested in designing water markets and property rights. In my research, I use tools from empirical industrial organization and market design. I am on the academic job market in 2024-25.

Faculty Advisors

Ali Yurukoglu,
Paul Milgrom,
Lanier Benkard

Research Interests

  • Environmental Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Market Design

Job Market Paper

Trade Frictions in Surface Water Markets

Publications

Market Design for Surface Water
Forthcoming in "New Direction in Market Design: NBER Volume"

with Paul Milgrom.

Estimating Experienced Racial Segregation in U.S. Cities Using Large-Scale GPS Data
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

with Susan Athey, Matthew Gentzkow, and Tobias Schmidt.

Working Papers

What Explains Temporal and Geographic Variation in the Early US Coronavirus Pandemic?

with Hunt Allcott, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, and Benny Goldman. Conditionally Accepted at Review of Economic Design.

Assessing the Sensitivity of Synthetic Control Treatment Effect Estimates to Misspecification Error

with Brad Ross. Reject and Resubmit at Review of Economics and Statistics.

Work in Progress

Local Economic Spillovers from Water Trade

with Zane Kashner

Robust Rights to the Commons

with Bing Liu