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

Price Discrimination in Electric Vehicle Fast Charging

Job Market Paper

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

Control and Spread of Contagion in Networks With Global Effects (with Tarun Sabarwal). Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2023.

Teaching

Instructor

Computational Economics Bootcamp (Summer 2024, 2025)

Teaching Assistant

ECON 301: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (Fall 2022)

ECON 410: Introductory to Econometrics (Spring 2023)

Contact

Email

[email protected]

Office

Sewell 7308
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison