Bhavyaa Sharma

Bhavyaa Sharma is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her primary fields are Macroeconomics and Financial Economics, with a focus on climate risks. She is particularly interested in investigating how firms, households, and financial institutions make decisions regarding climate risk mitigation and adaptation in the context of (i) lack of information about climate change and (ii) behavioral biases such as under-reaction in response to available information. She is also interested in leveraging increasingly available microdata across developed and emerging economies to inform macroeconomic models of labor market outcomes and firm expectations. Her research has benefited from fellowships at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the New York Federal Reserve, and the San Francisco Federal Reserve. Before starting her Ph.D., she worked as a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, an autonomous research institute under the Ministry of Finance in India.