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 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 summer I'm in the Metrics group at The Brattle Group in Washington, DC.

Outside of that I read, bake — mostly laminated dough and bread — and collect board games. I also follow Bayern Munich closely enough that it turned into a structural break analysis of their managerial regimes.

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.

My Skills

My methods work is in applied econometrics — panel and time-series models, count models, structural break testing, and local projections — alongside Monte Carlo simulation and rating systems. I work primarily in R and Python, use Stata for panel data, and write in LaTeX. Applied work has included factor-sensitivity estimation, trade-elasticity and industry-concordance construction, and simulation-based forecasting, along with Excel financial modeling and corporate valuation through Training the Street workshops.

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 a laptop.

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

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