Margaret Levenstein

Margaret Levenstein
Education	Columbia University (BA) Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD)
Children	2
Scientific career
Fields	Economics
Institutions	University of Michigan

Margaret C. Levenstein ^[1] is an American economist who is Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and research professor at the Institute for Social Research and the School of Information at the University of Michigan. ^[2] She is a past president of the Business History Conference. ^[3] Her research focuses on historical firm organization and competition and the evolution of information systems within firms. ^[4]

Levenstein received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1983 and Ph.D. from Yale University. ^[5]

Selected works

• Levenstein, Margaret C., and Valerie Y. Suslow. "What determines cartel success?." Journal of economic literature 44, no. 1 (2006): 43–95.
• Levenstein, Margaret C., and Valerie Y. Suslow. "Breaking up is hard to do: Determinants of cartel duration." The Journal of Law and Economics 54, no. 2 (2011): 455–492.
• Levenstein, Margaret. Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. Stanford University Press, 1998.
• Evenett, Simon J., Margaret C. Levenstein, and Valerie Y. Suslow. International cartel enforcement: lessons from the 1990s. The World Bank, 2001.
• Levenstein, Margaret C. "Price Wars and the Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre‐World War I Bromine Industry." The Journal of Industrial Economics 45, no. 2 (1997): 117–137.

References

1. "Margaret C. Levenstein". www-personal.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
2. "CSWEP Assoc. Chair & Survey Director: Margaret Levenstein". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
3. "Margaret Levenstein | The Business History Conference". thebhc.org. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
4. "Margaret Levenstein, Institute for New Economic Thinking". Institute for New Economic Thinking. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
5. "The Hilltop Society FY21 Donors List". giving.barnard.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-10.

External links

• Story Corps interview with Lisa Cook, recorded May 22, 2020