FACULTY PROFILE
Margaret C. Levenstein
Executive Director, Michigan Census Research Data Center
Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research
Adjunct Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor
Margaret Levenstein is Adjunct Associate Professor of Business
Economics
and Executive Director of the Michigan Census Research Data
Center at the Institute for Social Research. She
received her Ph.D. in economics (with distinction) from Yale
University, where she specialized in industrial organization and U.S.
economic history. She has previously taught at the University of
Massachusetts, Michigan State University, and Albion College, and was
a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Professor Margaret Levenstein holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University (1991) and an A.B. in economics from Barnard College of Columbia University (1983). She joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1990. She has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Michigan State University, and Albion College, and was a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Professor Levenstein's current research examines two distinct areas: contemporary and historical international cartels and the history of the financing of technological innovation. She recently co-edited a two volume collection of essays, Cartels, with Stephen Salant, published by Edward Elgar. Her first book, Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation was published by Stanford University Press. This monograph uses the early history of the Dow Chemical Company as a case study to evaluate the role of modern accounting and information systems in the growth of the firm in the early part of the twentieth century. Her recent publications on international cartels, co-authored with Valerie Suslow, have appeared in World Economy, the Antitrust Law Journal, and the Journal of Economic Literature. Her recent research on patenting and early venture capital markets (joint with Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff of UCLA) has appeared in Business and Economic History and Capitalism and Society. She serves on the editorial board of Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History. She previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History and was trustee of the Business History Conference.
At the Ross School of Business, Professor Levenstein has taught the
Applied Microeconomics core course and Macroeconomic Environment for
Business in the day, evening, global, and executive MBA programs. Also at
Ross, she has taught PhD courses on International Cartels and Social and
Economic Data. She teaches in the Kaufman Foundation’s “boot camp” for
research on Minority and Women Entrepreneurship. She has served as a
consultant to the World Bank and in various international antitrust cases.
As Executive Director of the Michigan Census Research Data Center, she
oversees the operations of its secure enclave for qualified researchers with
approved projects to access confidential Census micro data.
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