Margaret C. Levenstein^[1] is an American economist who is Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research and the School of Information at the University of Michigan.^[2] She is a past president of the Business History Conference.^[3] Her research focuses on historical firm organization and competition and the evolution of information systems within firms.^[4]

Levenstein received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1983 and Ph.D. from Yale University.^[5]

Selected works

• Levenstein, Margaret C., and Valerie Y. Suslow. "What determines cartel success?." Journal of economic literature 44, no. 1 (2006): 43–95.
• Levenstein, Margaret C., and Valerie Y. Suslow. "Breaking up is hard to do: Determinants of cartel duration." The Journal of Law and Economics 54, no. 2 (2011): 455–492.
• Levenstein, Margaret. Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. Stanford University Press, 1998.
• Evenett, Simon J., Margaret C. Levenstein, and Valerie Y. Suslow. International cartel enforcement: lessons from the 1990s. The World Bank, 2001.
• Levenstein, Margaret C. "Price Wars and the Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre‐World War I Bromine Industry." The Journal of Industrial Economics 45, no. 2 (1997): 117–137.