Rate My Professor David Levine

Levine's research specializations encompass game theory, learning in games, intellectual property, endogenous growth in dynamic general equilibrium models, self-control, endogenous formation of preferences and social norms, institutions, evolutionary game theory, and applications to experimental economics. He has made seminal contributions, including work on self-fulfilling prophecies in dynamic models, endogenous debt limits, folk theorems for dynamic games, and quantitative models explaining experimental anomalies like altruism in ultimatum games. Key publications include books such as 'Theory of Learning in Games' with Drew Fudenberg (MIT Press, 1998), 'Against Intellectual Monopoly' with Michele Boldrin (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and 'Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?' with Michele Boldrin (Openbook Publishers, 2012). Selected papers feature 'A Dual Self Model of Impulse Control' with Drew Fudenberg (American Economic Review, 2006), 'Voter Turnout with Peer Punishment' with Andrea Mattozzi (American Economic Review, 2020), and 'The Tripartite Auction Folk Theorem' with Andrea Mattozzi and Salvatore Modica (European Economic Review, 2024). Levine has held prominent editorial roles, including Co-editor of Econometrica (2003-2008) and current Co-editor of the European Economic Review. Among his honors are Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1989, Economic Theory Fellow since 2011, and Sloan Research Fellowship. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.