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Akshaya Jha is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. His research interests focus on energy, environmental economics, and industrial organization. Jha employs a combination of economic modeling and causal inference techniques to evaluate the economic and environmental costs and benefits of various policies affecting wholesale electricity supply. His recent projects include an analysis of the financial trading mechanisms in California's wholesale electricity market, the implications of Germany's phase-out of nuclear energy, and the factors contributing to electricity blackouts in India. He has also investigated the substantial increase in rooftop solar capacity in Western Australia. Jha holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.
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