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James A. Levinsohn

James A. Levinsohn

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
42
Citations
27202
World Ranking
1991
National Ranking
1154

Overview

James A. Levinsohn is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of economics, econometrics, and finance, with a significant emphasis on merger and competition analysis.

The scientist has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, including recent papers such as:

  • On the misuse of regressions of price on the HHI in merger review (2022, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement)
  • Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem (2023, Journal of Development Economics)
  • On the Misuse of Regressions of Price on the HHI in Merger Review (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • The Musk Partisan Effect on Tesla Sales (2025, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Their work has appeared frequently in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
  • Journal of Development Economics

James A. Levinsohn often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nathan Miller
  • Steven Berry
  • Jonathan B. Baker
  • Timothy F. Bresnahan
  • Martin Gaynor

Their research spans several subfields, notably economics and econometrics, accounting, nutrition and dietetics, safety research, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Main topics emphasized in their work include:

  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Best Publications

  • Estimating production functions using inputs to control for unobservables

    James Levinsohn;Amil Petrin

  • AUTOMOBILE PRICES IN MARKET EQUILIBRIUM

    Steven T Berry;James Alan Levinsohn;Ariel Pakes

  • Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market

    Steven T. Berry;James Levinsohn;Ariel Pakes

  • International Trade Theory: The Evidence

    Edward E Leamer;Edward E Leamer;James Levinsohn;James Levinsohn

  • Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence

    David Hummels;James Levinsohn

  • Production Function Estimation in Stata using Inputs to Control for Unobservables

    Amil Petrin;Brian P. Poi;James Levinsohn

  • Testing the Imports-as-Market-Discipline Hypothesis

    James A. Levinsohn;James A. Levinsohn

  • Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa

    Abhijit Banerjee;Sebastian Galiani;Jim Levinsohn;Zoë McLaren

  • Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Trade Policy

    Steven Berry;James Levinsohn;Ariel Pakes

  • Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data

    Amil K Petrin;James Levinsohn

  • Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables

    James A. Levinsohn;James A. Levinsohn;Amil Petrin;Amil Petrin

  • The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare : A 'Rapid Response' Methodology

    Jed Friedman;James A. Levinsohn

  • Employment responses to international liberalization in Chile

    James Levinsohn

  • Encouraging sanitation investment in the developing world: A cluster-randomized trial

    Raymond Guiteras;James Levinsohn;Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

  • Merger policies and trade liberalization

    Henrik Horn;James A. Levinsohn

  • Estimating markups and market conduct with multidimensional product attributes

    Robert C. Feenstra;James A. Levinsohn

  • When Industries Become More Productive, Do Firms?

    James Levinsohn;Amil Petrin

  • Chapter 26 International trade theory: The evidence

    Edward E. Leamer;James Levinsohn

  • Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate

    Juan Carlos Hallak;James Levinsohn

  • Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor

    James A Levinsohn;Steven T Berry;Jed Friedman

  • Two Policies to Alleviate Unemployment in South Africa

    James Levinsohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Berry
Steven Berry Yale University
Murray Leibbrandt
Murray Leibbrandt University of Cape Town
Ariel Pakes
Ariel Pakes Harvard University
Margaret S. McMillan
Margaret S. McMillan Tufts University
David Hummels
David Hummels Purdue University West Lafayette
Joel Slemrod
Joel Slemrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert C. Feenstra
Robert C. Feenstra University of California, Davis
Gene M. Grossman
Gene M. Grossman Princeton University
Edward E. Leamer
Edward E. Leamer University of California, Los Angeles
David Lam
David Lam University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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