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Akshaya Jha, PhD

  • Faculty Affiliate at PESD

Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

Hamburg Hall Office 3016
H. John Heinz III College
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-268-4693 (voice)

Biography

Akshaya Jha joined PESD in the summer of 2010 and left PESD in the summer of 2015. He is currently an assistant professor of economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His current fields of interest include Energy/Environmental Economics and Industrial Organization, with Econometric theory as a secondary field.


At PESD, Akshaya performed economic analysis regarding the determinants of market interaction in bid-based electricity markets using data from a variety of settings. He is currently examining the effects of output price regulation on input fuel procurement for U.S. electricity generation. In other work with Frank Wolak, he is also quantifying the impacts of financial traders on California's wholesale electricity markets.

He received his Bachelors of Science from Carnegie Mellon University in Economics and Statistics in 2009.

publications

Working Papers
September 2019

Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Short-Term Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity

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