About Me

I'm a senior at the College of William & Mary completing a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Economics, graduating in 2027 with a 3.90 GPA. My coursework includes honors real analysis alongside substantial applied and pure mathematics.

My work is largely in applied econometrics: panel and time-series models, structural break testing, and simulation. Last spring I worked on questions in trade, industrial organization, and public finance at the Council of Economic Advisers; this past summer I was in the Metrics group at The Brattle Group in Washington, DC.

Outside of that I love to read, bake, and play board games!

Portrait of Ethan Robertson

Experience

  • The Brattle Group

    Metrics Group · Washington, DC · Summer 2026

    Economic consulting in the Metrics group, supporting quantitative analysis on client matters.

  • Council of Economic Advisers

    Washington, DC · Spring 2026

    Research spanning trade, industrial organization, and public finance.

  • AidData, William & Mary

    Research Assistant, China Development Finance Program

    Extracted and validated West African and Chinese financial data in R.

Research

  • Entrant Type and Incumbent Network Upgrades: Cable Operators' DOCSIS 4.0 Deployment under Fiber and Fixed Wireless Entry

    Prepared for TPRC 2026 · Work in progress

    Yong Paek, Yongjoon Park, Ellie Price, Ethan Robertson, and Paroma Sanyal

    Whether the type of broadband entrant affects an incumbent cable operator's decision to undertake a discrete network upgrade. Using eight semiannual vintages of the FCC's Broadband Data Collection (June 2022–December 2025), we estimate fixed-effects and event-study models of symmetric-gigabit cable deployment, testing whether incumbent upgrade responses differ between fiber and fixed-wireless entrants.

My Skills

My methods work is in applied econometrics: panel and time-series models, count models, structural break testing, and local projections. I work primarily in R and Python, using Stata occasionally for panel data, and write in LaTeX. Applied work has included factor-sensitivity estimation, trade-elasticity and industry-concordance construction, and simulation-based forecasting.

I run my own research infrastructure: a self-hosted OpenMediaVault server with a Docker stack that includes RStudio Server and a containerized LaTeX environment, networked over Tailscale with ACLs and subnet routing and exposed selectively through Cloudflare Tunnels. My analysis environment and writing toolchain are versioned and reproducible rather than living on my laptop.

French: fluent, DELF B2. I studied in Strasbourg and wrote bilingual equity research at ACE Finance et Conseil.

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