Kenneth G. Elzinga
Robert C. Taylor Chair Economics
University of Virginia
Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on antitrust economics, particularly market definition and pricing strategy, as well as the relationship between economics and public policy.
Elzinga has spent his academic career at the University of Virginia, where he has served as professor, associate professor, and assistant professor of economics. He has also held visiting appointments at Pepperdine University and Trinity University and served as a fellow in law & economics at the University of Chicago. Earlier in his career, he worked as a special economic adviser to the assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and as a research economist for the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee.
He is the co-author, under the pseudonym Marshall Jevons with William L. Breit, of the mystery novels “Murder at the Margin,” “The Fatal Equilibrium,” and “A Deadly Indifference.” He also co-authored “The Antitrust Casebook: Milestones in Economic Regulation.”
Elzinga received the University of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson Award, the institution’s highest faculty honor, along with the Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the University of Virginia Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award. He has also received teaching honors from the Kenan and Templeton foundations.
Elzinga earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from Michigan State University and a bachelor’s from Kalamazoo College, which later awarded him an honorary doctorate.
