Tcherneva has taught at the
Franklin and Marshall College and the
University of Missouri-Kansas City. During 2000–2006, she served as the associate director for economic analysis at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, where she remains a senior research associate. In summer 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the
University of Cambridge's Centre for Economic and Public Policy, in the United Kingdom, and since July 2007, she's a research scholar at the
Levy Economics Institute. Tcherneva's work is on
macroeconomics issues, where she is conducting research in the field of fiscal policy, with a focus on full employment. She is a notable proponent of
modern monetary theory and the notion of a
job guarantee. Her research on monetary and fiscal policies, specifically under sovereign currency regimes and the macroeconomic effects of alternative stabilization programs, including both the Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and responses from the Federal Reserve's policy during the Great Recession have appeared in the
Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and International Journal of Political Economy, in addition to other publications. She has also collaborated with policymakers from various countries, including the United States, on developing job-creation programs. ==Selected works==