Alena Miftakhova

Research interests

Economics of climate change, Integrated assessment modeling, Computable general equilibrium modeling, Sensitivity analysis

Positions

2019-present | Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Economic Research, ETH Zurich

Education

2014-2019 | Ph.D. in Business Administration (Economics of Climate Change), University of Zurich, Switzerland. Supervisor: Karl Schmedders

2011-2014 | MA in Management and Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2004-2009 | BA in Economics at Saint-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, Russia 

Publications

Miftakhova A., (2021) Global sensitivity analysis for optimal climate policies: finding what truly matterscall_made, Economic Modelling, 105. doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105653call_made.

Miftakhova, A., Judd, K. L., Lontzek, T. S., & Schmedders, K. (2020). Statistical approximation of high-dimensional climate models.call_made Journal of Econometrics, 214(1), 67-80. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.05.005call_made

Miftakhova, A., Schmedders, K., & Schumacher, M. (2020). Computing Economic Equilibria Using Projection Methods.call_made Annual Review of Economics, 12(1) 317-353. doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-025711call_made

Working papers

Renoir, C., Miftakhova, A., (2021) Economic Growth and Equity in Anticipation of Climate Policycall_made

Jo, A., Miftakhova, A., (2022) How Constant is Constant Elasticity of Substitution? Endogenous Substitution between Clean and Dirty Energycall_made

Bretschger, L., Leuthard, M., & Miftakhova A., (2023) Boosting Sluggish Climate Policy: Endogenous Substitution, Learning, and Energy Efficiency Improvementscall_made