Jonathan Levin is the Holbrook Working Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2000. He is also Professor by Courtesy in the Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
His research is in the field of industrial organization, particularly the economics of contracting, organizations, and market design. His current research includes projects on internet markets, auction design, and health insurance.
Levin is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Sloan Research Fellow, an NSF Career Award recipient, and winner of department and school-wide teaching awards. In 2011, he received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal as the economist under the age of forty who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.
Degree(s):
B.A., English, Stanford University, 1994
B.S., Mathematics, Stanford University, 1994
M.Phil., Economics, Oxford University, 1996
Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
