Maja Žarković

I am a Research Economist with interests in Productivity and Efficiency Analysis and Applied Microeconomics. The bulk of my current research focuses on trying to develop a better understanding of how firms respond to climate policies with a particular focus on their productivity and efficiency. My recent work investigates the relationship between individual voting behavior and public policy.

In my job market paper I study the effect of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on firm economic performance. To do so, I combine a range of stochastic meta cost frontier models with a Difference-in-differences analysis. My paper accounts for the fact that this climate policy potentially affects regulated firms' cost frontiers, which is largely ignored in the literature.