Jonathan Levin (economist)

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Jonathan Levin (economist) : biography

November 17, 1972 –

Jonathan Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist at Stanford University. He is currently the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory, and Chair of the Economics Department at Stanford. He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703648304576265321741541198.html

He is the son of Yale University president, Richard Levin.

Academic Career

Levin received his BA and BS degrees from Stanford University in 1994, an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996, and his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999. He was a post-doctoral scholar at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University, and began teaching at Stanford in 2000. His research is in the field of Industrial Organization.