Research Fellow
Dr. Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Andrew’s main areas of research include environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, applied econometrics, and water economics and policy. Andrew’s current work examines legal and economic institutions for the management of groundwater resources, with a focus on water marketing and managing impacts from fallowed lands. Previously, Andrew worked in Germany and the United States on projects to inform policy-making related to climate change, energy, river restoration, and water pricing. Andrew holds a Ph.D. from a joint program between the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management as well as the Department of Economics at UC Santa Barbara.