Patrick J. Ferguson
Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting, Faculty of Business & Economics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010
Email: pfer@unimelb.edu.au
About
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting at the University of Melbourne. I hold a PhD in Business Administration from Harvard University. For my dissertation, I received the American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award.
In my research, I use observational data and field experiments to study how firms measure, reward, and report on employees' performance. I am also interested in contest design and sports economics.
Publications
Patrick J. Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani. Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League. Economic Record, Vol. 99, Issue 326, September 2023.
Patrick J. Ferguson, Jane Hronsky, and Matthew Pinnuck. Who pays attention to sustainability reports? Evidence from Google search activity. Accounting & Finance, Vol. 63, Issue 3, September 2023.
Patrick J. Ferguson and Matthew Pinnuck. Superstar Productivity and Pay: Evidence from the Australian Football League. Economic Record, Vol. 98, Issue 321, June 2022.
Henry Eyring, Patrick J. Ferguson, and Sebastian Koppers. Less Information, More Comparison, Better Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Journal of Accounting Research, 59 (2), 2021.
Phillip Cobbin, Graeme Dean, Cameron Esslemont, Patrick J. Ferguson, Monica Keneley, Brad Potter, and Brian West. Enhancing the Accessibility of Accounting and Business Archives: The Role of Technology in Informing Research in Accounting and Business. Abacus, 49, 396-422, 2013.
Working Papers
When and why do supervisors' evaluations overweight subordinates' performance outcomes? Evidence from a team setting in the field (sole-authored, under third-round review at The Accounting Review).
Corporate website-based measures of firms' value drivers (with Wei Cai and Dennis Campbell, under review at Management Science)
Cases and Teaching Material
Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik, and Steven Randazzo. KangaTech. Harvard Business School Case 619-049, February 2019.
Taught in Harvard Business School's MBA field course 'Lab to Market'
Last updated: April 8, 2024