Akshaya Jha
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Akshaya Jha is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Jha’s research interests lie at the intersection of energy and environmental economics and industrial organization. His research uses a combination of economic modeling and causal inference techniques to quantify the economic and environmental costs and benefits of a wide range of policies impacting wholesale electricity supply. In recent work, he has examined the introduction of financial trading to California’s wholesale electricity market, the phase-out of nuclear power in Germany, the dramatic growth of rooftop solar capacity in Western Australia, and the determinants of electricity blackouts in India.
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His work has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of the Hicks-Tinbergen Award in 2024—awarded biennially for the best paper in the Journal of the European Economic Association—as well as the Heinz College Martcia Wade Teaching Award (2023) and the USAEE Young Professional Research Award (2021).
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