David K. Levine | |
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Born |
David Knudsen Levine c. 1955 (age 61–62) |
Nationality | American |
Institution | Washington University in St. Louis |
Field | Game theory, General equilibrium Theory |
Alma mater | UCLA, MIT |
Doctoral advisor |
Peter Diamond |
Contributions | Learning in games, Folk theorem |
David Knudsen Levine (born c. 1955) is the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research includes the study of intellectual property and endogenous growth in dynamic general equilibrium models, the endogenous formation of preferences, social norms and institutions, learning in games, and game theory applications to experimental economics.
At UCLA, Levine obtained a B.A. in Mathematics in 1977, and an M.A. in Economics in the same year. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics at MIT in June 1981. He became an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA in July 1981, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1987, and a Professor of Economics at UCLA in the same year. In 1997 he became the Armen Alchian Professor of Economics at UCLA. In 2006 he moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where he became the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics.
Levine was the Coeditor of the Review of Economic Dynamics from November 1996 to June 2001, and of Econometrica from July 2003 to June 2008. He presided the Society for Economic Dynamics from July 2006 to June 2009.
Levine is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1989 and a Research Associate at NBER since 2006.