Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Antitrust expert Kenneth Elzinga joins Cornerstone Research, (Nov 8, 2013)
Organizations Mentioned:Michigan State University | U.S. Department of Justice | University of Chicago | University of Virginia
Kenneth G. Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, has joined economics consulting firm Cornerstone Research as a Senior Advisor, the firm announced yesterday.
In addition to his academic career, Elzinga has served as a special economic advisor to the head of the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division and as a consultant to the FTC. Elzinga has provided economics testimony in numerous high-profile cases, including as an expert witness for the prevailing parties in three U.S. Supreme Court cases. Elzinga was one of the creators of the Elzinga-Hogarty test, a test widely used to define relevant geographic markets in antitrust cases.
Elzinga’s research focuses on antitrust economics, particularly pricing strategy and market definition. He was a fellow in law and economics at the University of Chicago and a Thomas Jefferson visiting scholar at Cambridge University. He has published more than 100 academic works, including research that has appeared in economics and legal journals such as the American Economic Review and the Harvard Law Review. He also served as a past president of the Southern Economic Association, which has established a teaching award named after him.
Elzinga received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1967 and an M.A. in Economics in 1966 from Michigan State University and a B.A. in Economics in 1963 from Kalamazoo College. He received an honorary doctorate in Economics from Kalamazoo College in 2000.
Cornerstone Research is a leading economics consulting firm offering services to attorneys in all phases of complex litigation and regulatory proceedings. The firm has 450 staff located in offices in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
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