Senior Staff
Mark E. Meitzen, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982) is a Vice President at Christensen Associates, where he has been employed since 1990. Dr. Meitzen was a primary author of the November 2008 Christensen Associates’ study of the U.S. freight railroad industry commissioned by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. He was also the project manager and a primary author of the 2009 supplemental report to the STB on railroad capacity and investment issues. Dr. Meitzen has expertise in the economic analysis of network industries including telecommunications, railroad, electricity, and postal. In addition to the recent STB studies, his work in the railroad industry includes analysis of railroad mergers and the application of the STB’s Constrained Market Pricing standards, including its Stand Alone Cost methodology. Dr. Meitzen also serves as an economic expert in regulatory proceedings on incentive regulation, pricing and economic costing matters, antitrust, intellectual property, and employment issues. Prior to joining Christensen Associates, Dr. Meitzen was a corporate economist at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and an assistant professor of economics at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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