Margaret Levenstein

{{short description|American economist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Margaret Levenstein | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = Columbia University (BA)<br>Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD) | spouse = | children = 2 | field = Economics | workplaces = University of Michigan }} '''Margaret C. Levenstein'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margaret C. Levenstein |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~maggiel/ |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=www-personal.umich.edu}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CSWEP Assoc. Chair & Survey Director: Margaret Levenstein|url=https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/cswep/about/members/margaret-levenstein|access-date=2020-10-28|website=www.aeaweb.org}}</ref> She is a past president of the Business History Conference.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Margaret Levenstein {{!}} The Business History Conference|url=https://thebhc.org/user/555|access-date=2020-10-28|website=thebhc.org}}</ref> Her research focuses on historical firm organization and competition and the evolution of information systems within firms.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Margaret Levenstein, Institute for New Economic Thinking|url=https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/mlevenstein|access-date=2020-10-28|website=Institute for New Economic Thinking|language=en}}</ref>

Levenstein received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1983 and Ph.D. from Yale University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Hilltop Society FY21 Donors List |url=https://giving.barnard.edu/s/1133/campaign/interior.aspx?sid=1133&gid=1&pgid=5760 |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=giving.barnard.edu |language=en}}</ref>

== 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.

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== External links == * [https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/lisa-cook-and-margaret-levenstein/ Story Corps interview] with Lisa Cook, recorded May 22, 2020

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