John Higgins
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John Higgins

Job Market Candidate

University of Wisconsin-Madison

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research interests include industrial organization, applied microeconomics, electric vehicles, and electricity markets.

I will be on the 2026-2027 job market. You can find my CV here.

Feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Research

Platform Switching Policies Under Collusion: Unintended Consequences for Digital Platforms (with Christopher Sullivan, Lorenzo Magnolfi, and Dan Quint)
Working Paper
Baseload Production and Electricity Price Variation (with Jack Collison)
Work in progress

Publications

Teaching

Instructor

Computational Economics Bootcamp (Summer 2024, 2025)

Teaching Assistant

ECON 301: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (Fall 2022)

ECON 410: Introductory to Econometrics (Spring 2023)

Job Market Tracker

For those on the 2026-2027 Economics job market, I made an automatically-updating website which tracks the number of listings on the AEA's Job Openings for Economists board. It plots previous years for comparison and allows filtering by job type.

Contact

Office
Sewell 7308
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison