Rate My Professor David Levine

David Levine serves as the Leverhulme International Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. He assumed this position in September 2023, following an illustrious academic career. Previously, he was the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis from 2006 to 2016, the Armen Alchian Professor of Economics at UCLA from 1997 to 2006, and Professor of Economics at UCLA from 1987 to 1997. Earlier roles include Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota from 1987 to 1988 and Assistant Professor at UCLA from 1981 to 1986. Levine also held the position of Professor of Economics and Joint Chair at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute from 2013 to 2023. His educational background includes a BA in Mathematics and an MA in Economics from UCLA in 1977, and a PhD in Economics from MIT in 1981.

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.