Dr. Svetla K. Tzenova
Senior Consultant
Education
PhD in economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
MBA, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
MS in economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS in economics and mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experience
Dr. Tzenova is a Senior Consultant in NERA's Antitrust and Intellectual Property Practices. Her main areas of expertise include theoretical and applied microeconomics, and industrial organization. She specializes in competition strategy, monopolization, price fixing, vertical restraints, and damages estimation.
Before joining NERA, Dr. Tzenova worked on numerous research projects with faculty at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and, prior to that, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has experience estimating welfare effects in the DBS/cable market, various tax and price elasticities related to Internet penetration, and extensive knowledge of the mutual funds industry. At the University of Chicago, she taught graduate-level courses in microeconomics, industrial organization, competitive strategy, the economics of the telecommunications industry, and labor economics.
Dr. Tzenova received her BS in mathematics and economics and MS in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned her MBA and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Her PhD dissertation examined the implications of software piracy on the market structure of the software industry.
