Levin receives John Bates Clark Medal.

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NBER Research Associate Jonathan D. Levin received the American Economics Association's John Bates Clark Medal for 2011. This annual award recognizes the American economist under the age of 40 who has made the most substantial contribution to economic thought and knowledge. This year's prize highlights Levin's research contributions on contracting, the organization and design of markets, sub-prime lending, and the design of empirical methods for studying imperfect competition.

Levin is a faculty member at Stanford University and a member of the NBER's Industrial Organization Program. He received a B.A in English and a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1994, an M. Phil. in Economics from Oxford University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999. Levin was appointed a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER in...