Dr. Elena Ramirez

Education

PhD in economics, University of Maryland, College Park
MA in economics, University of Maryland, College Park
BA in economics, Salisbury University 

Experience

Elena Ramirez advises clients across the communications, media, and internet industries on issues related to antitrust, labor and employment, and consumer protection and privacy. Her recent projects include economic impact studies of e-commerce and digital technologies and marketplaces as well as complex analyses related to questions of consumer behavior and injury. Dr. Ramirez has vast experience using large administrative data from countries around the world and using geographical data for spatial economic analyses.

Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Ramirez assisted clients on issues related to intellectual property and corporate taxation. She also worked as a research associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, focusing on employing microsimulation modeling to estimate the revenue and distributional impacts of US tax policies.