
Bhavyaa Sharma
Address: Engineering 2, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA - 95064
Email: bsharma5@ucsc.edu
Welcome to my page!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz. My primary fields of interest are Macroeconomics and Financial Economics, with a focus on climate change.
My research is focused on 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.
I am also interested in leveraging increasingly available microdata across developed and emerging economies to inform macroeconomic models of labor market outcomes and firm expectations.
I will be joining the Federal Reserve Board as an Economist in the Division of Supervision and Regulation in the Summer of 2025, before which I will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance at Goethe University, Frankfurt, between June - July 2025.
References
Dr. Galina Hale (Advisor) (UC Santa Cruz)
Dr. Grace Weishi Gu (UC Santa Cruz)
Dr. Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (UC Santa Cruz)
Dr. Alonso Villacorta (UC Santa Cruz)