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J Levin - The American Economic Review, 2003 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Standard incentive theory models provide a rich framework for studying
informational problems but assume that contracts can be perfectly enforced. This paper
studies the design of self-enforced relational contracts. I show that optimal contracts often ...
P Bajari, CL Benkard… - Econometrica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a two-step algorithm for estimating dynamic games under the assumption that
behavior is consistent with Markov perfect equilibrium. In the first step, the policy functions
and the law of motion for the state variables are estimated. In the second step, the ...
R Jewkes, J Levin… - Social science & medicine, 2002 - Elsevier
In 1998 a cross-sectional study of violence against women was undertaken in three
provinces of South Africa. The objectives were to measure the prevalence of physical,
sexual and emotional abuse of women, to identify risk factors and associated health ...
RK Jewkes, JB Levin… - Social Science & Medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
S Athey… - 1999 - nber.org
This paper studies the bidding behavior of firms in US Forest Service timber auctions in
1976--1990. When conducting timber auctions, the Forest Service publicly announces its
estimates of the tract characteristics before the auction, and each bidder additionally has ...
J Levin… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract When it is hard to assess service quality, firms will suboptimally hire low ability
workers. We show that organizing as a profit-sharing partnership can alleviate these
problems. Our theory explains the relative scarcity of partnerships outside of professional ...
JV Levin - The export economics: their pattern of development in …, 1960 - cabdirect.org
This book examines the historical background of the export economies' previous pattern of
development and the modern revolt against the pattern of frustrated development which so many
export economies have shared. A fundamental change is in progress in those countries in ...
J Levin… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995 - JSTOR
T he design of an electoral system is fundamental to any democracy. Motivation for
understanding how electoral system design matters comes from many directions: the
creation of new constitutions in eastern Europe; the recent trauma of a three-way ...
J Levin… - The Journal of Industrial Economics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
LEVIN, J. and TADELIS, S.(2010), CONTRACTING FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICES:
THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM US CITIES. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 58: 507–
541. doi: 10.1111/j. 1467-6451.2010. 00430. x
R Jewkes, L Penn-Kekana, J Levin… - … OF SOUTH AFRICA …, 2001 - archive.samj.org.za
We thank aseema Aithma and Marlene Kassel for microbiological analysis of the implicated
food, and Paul Britz, Johan Hendricks, Davjd Jones, Jokkie VJ1joen and all the environmental
health officers who participated in the aftermath of the event. References L South African ...
[CITATION] The export economies
JV Levin - 1960 - Harvard University Press
R Jewkes, K Dunkle, MP Koss, JB Levin… - Social Science & …, 2006 - Elsevier
W Adams, L Einav… - 2007 - nber.org
We present new evidence on consumer liquidity constraints and the credit market conditions
that might give rise to them. Our analysis is based on unique data from a large auto sales
company that serves the subprime market. We first document the role of short-term ...
KL Dunkle, RK Jewkes,
M Nduna, J Levin, N Jama… - Aids, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To examine associations between the perpetration of intimate partner violence
and HIV risk behaviour among young men in rural South Africa. Design: An analysis of
baseline data from men enrolling in a randomized controlled trial of the behavioural ...
KL Dunkle, R Jewkes,
M Nduna, N Jama… - Social Science & …, 2007 - Elsevier
We explored the prevalence and predictors of transactional sex with casual partners and
main girlfriends among 1288 men aged 15–26 from 70 villages in the rural Eastern Cape
province of South Africa. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with young ...
S Athey,
J Levin… - WORKING PAPER- …, 1998 - aida.econ.yale.edu
In a Bayesian decision problem, an agent who is uncertain about the true state of the world
must choose an action after observing an imperfectly informative signal. Blackwell (1951,
1953) proved the seminal result that every agent faced with such a decision problem will ...
JI Bulow… - 2005 - nber.org
... Jeremy Bulow Jonathan Levin Working Paper 11506 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11506 ... The
views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2005 by Jeremy Bulow and Jonathan Levin. ...
J Levin - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper studies the structure of the employment relationship in organizations. It
investigates the trade-off firms face between making commitments to their workforce as a
whole (multilateral relational contracts), and making more limited commitments to ...
J Levin - Games and Economic Behavior, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper considers the optimal selling mechanism for complementary items. When buyers
are perfectly symmetric, the optimal procedure is to bundle the items and run a standard
auction. In general, however, bundling the items is not necessarily desirable, and the ...
J Levin - Rand Journal of Economics, 2001 - JSTOR
This article revisits Akerlof's (1970) classic adverse-selection market and asks the following
question: do greater information asymmetries reduce the gains from trade? Perhaps
surprisingly, the answer is no. Better information on the selling side worsens the" buyer's ...
Jonathan Levin - 1999 - books.google.com
The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and
literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both
movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the ...
S Athey,
J Levin… - Unpublished Paper, 2004 - nber.org
Abstract We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions with
heterogeneous bidders. Using data from US Forest Service timber auctions, we document a
set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more small bidders, ...
HS Crawley… - British Medical Journal, 1990 - bmj.com
Page 1. PRACTICE OBSERVED Training for general practice: a national survey
Helen S Crawley, Jonathan B Levin Abstract Objectives-(a) To compare current
vocational training in general practice with that ascertained by ...
J Levin - IMF Working Paper No. 91/8, 1991 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: To measure subnational governments, only external money flows are counted,
excluding intra-level transactions in measuring a level of government and all
intergovernmental transactions in measuring general government. Control, finance, and ...
AE Pettifor, I Kleinschmidt, J Levin… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To determine whether South African youths living in communities that had either
of two youth human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention interventions [(a) loveLife
Youth Centre or (b) loveLife National Adolescent Friendly Clinic Initiative] would have a ...
J Levin… - Stanford Institute for Economics Institute for …, 2002 - econ.haifa.ac.il
Abstract We compare the costs and benefits of partnerships relative to the corporate form of
organization. We show that organizing as a partnership can be desirable in humancapital
intensive industries where product quality is hard to observe. The theory explains the ...
S Athey,
J Levin… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2011 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions. Using data
from the US Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects: sealed
bid auctions attract more small bidders, shift the allocation toward these bidders, and can ...
B Amuron, G Namara, J Birungi… - BMC Public …, 2009 - biomedcentral.com
Background In many HIV programmes in Africa, patients are assessed clinically and
prepared for antiretroviral treatment over a period of 4–12 weeks. Mortality rates following
initiation of ART are very high largely because patients present late with advanced ...
[CITATION] He must give me money, he mustn't beat me
R Jewkes, L Penn-Kekana, J Levin, M Ratsaka… - Violence against women in …, 1999
H Röllin, A Mathee, J Levin, P Theodorou… - Environmental …, 2005 - Elsevier
Little information exists on the environmental exposures to low levels of organometallic
manganese (a principal combustion product from manganese-containing fuel additives) and
public health. This study was undertaken to establish biological and environmental levels ...
K Arrow, A Auerbach, J Bertko… - Annals of Internal …, 2009 - Am Coll Physicians
Abstract The coverage, cost, and quality problems of the US health care system are evident.
Sustainable health care reform must go beyond financing expanded access to care to
substantially changing the organization and delivery of care. The FRESH-Thinking Project ...
KE Dickson, RK Jewkes, H Brown… - Studies in Family …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In 1996, South Africa introduced legislation that liberalized women's access to termination of
pregnancy. This study presents the findings of a survey undertaken to describe the
availability and accessibility of abortion services in 1999, three years after the law was ...
L Einav, A Finkelstein… - 2009 - nber.org
We describe recent advances in the empirical analysis of insurance markets. This new
research proposes ways to estimate individual demand for insurance and the relationship
between prices and insurer costs in the presence of adverse and advantageous selection. ...
J Levin… - 2002 - digitalcommons.law.yale.edu
Abstract In recent years, patent protection has extended into new areas, giving rise to
serious concern about the lack of clear guidelines for patentability. We analyze the effect of
introducing a patent opposition process that would allow patent validity to be challenged ...
J Bulow,
J Levin… - 2009 - nber.org
We describe factors that make bidding in large spectrum auctions complex--including
exposure and budget problems, the role of timing within an ascending auction, and the
possibilities for price forecasting--and how economic and game-theoretic analysis can ...
[CITATION] A note on global equilibrium selection in overlapping generations games
J Levin - 2001 - Mimeo, Stanford University
KPM MPH, LMR PhD, GTHE PhD, JB Levin… - Ethnicity & …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Page 1. Ethnicity & Health, 1998; 3(1/2): 71-79 Caesarean Section Rates in South
Africa: evidence of bias among different 'population groups' K. PATRICK MATSHIDZE
MPH,1 LINDA M. RICHTER PHD,1 GEORGE TH ELLISON ...
J Levin… - Unpublished manuscript, 2004 - localgov.fsu.edu
Abstract Local governments can choose to provide services with internally employed labor
or through contracts with external providers. We develop a general procurement model that
highlights the trade-off between productive efficiency and the costs of administrating ...
M Colvin, M Chopra, T Doherty… - Bulletin of the World …, 2007 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To determine the operational effectiveness of the South African programme for
preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in reducing rates of early
transmission of infection. METHODS: Participants were mother–infant pairs who ...
L Einav, M Jenkins… - Work. Pap., Stanford Univ, 2008 - olin.wustl.edu
Abstract. We study pricing and contract design in the subprime auto sales market. We
develop a model of the demand for financed purchases that incorporates both adverse
selection and moral hazard effects, and estimate the model using detailed transactionlevel ...
A Mathee, H Röllin, Y von Schirnding, J Levin… - Environmental …, 2006 - Elsevier
Epidemiological studies have indicated that in the 1980s and early 1990s (a period in which
petrol lead concentrations in South Africa ranged from 0.836 to 0.4 g/L), large proportions of
urban South African children were at risk of excessive exposure to environmental lead. In ...
J Levin - Staff Papers-International Monetary Fund, 1968 - JSTOR
Pour rechercher les particularités du développement propres à influer sur les possibilités
d'application d'un impôt et en examiner l'évolution aux divers stades de ce développement,
il convient, estime l'auteur, de faire porter principalement l'analyse économique sur l' ...
J Arnold, L Buell, MP Cohen, E Dodd… - Publications of the …, 1999 - JSTOR
A number of converging imperatives have prompted widespread professional attention to
environmental readings in the humanities recently, generating ideas that can only promise
increasingly focused development in the future. One general response to greater ...
C Avery… - 2009 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EARLY ADMISSIONS AT SELECTIVE
COLLEGES Christopher Avery Jonathan D. Levin Working Paper 14844
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14844 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
L Einav… - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EMPIRICAL INDUSTRIAL
ORGANIZATION: A PROGRESS REPORT Liran Einav Jonathan D. Levin Working
Paper 15786 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15786 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
A Mathee, H Röllin, J Levin… - Environmental health …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Surveys undertaken in South Africa have shown that a large proportion of
children are exposed to lead from a variety of sources. Objectives The overall objective of
this work was to examine, through a series of small-scale investigations, the role of lead- ...
[CITATION] Career Concerns and Collective Reputation
J Levin - Mineo, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2001
J Levin - Contemporary Literature, 2002 - JSTOR
Leonard M. Scigaj, Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 1999. xx+ 311 pp. $34.95. cocriticism is a term used primarily by scholars
trained in literary studies to describe an interdisciplinary approach to the study of nature, ...
J Levin - The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2009 - stanford.edu
Abstract I present a stochastic version of Tirole's (1996) collective reputation model. In
equilibrium, group behavior is persistent due to complementarity between the current
incentives of group members and the group's reputation, which depends on its history. A ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRICING AND WELFARE IN HEALTH
PLAN CHOICE M. Kate Bundorf Jonathan D. Levin Neale Mahoney Working Paper
14153 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14153 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
[CITATION] In Search of the National Bank Act
JL Levin - BANKING LJ, 1980
J Levin… - American Economic Review, 2010 - stanford.edu
By Jonathan Levin and Paul Milgrom* the searcher wants to see and buy right now. There is
also a direct route to measuring the searcher's response to advertising through click
behavior. The combination of targeting and measurement makes search advertising ...
[CITATION] National Primary Health Care Facilities Survey 2003
G Reagon, J Irlam, J Levin… - 2004 - Health Systems Trust
J Levin… - Patents in the knowledge-based economy, 2003 - books.google.com
ABSTRACT In recent years, patent protection has extended into new areas, giving rise to
serious concern about the lack of clear guidelines for patentability. We analyze the effect of
introducing a patent opposition process that would allow patent validity to be challenged ...
J Levin - IMF Working Paper No. 91/73, 1991 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: To assess the feasibility of the national accounts treating as assets depletable
resources extracted for sale, the paper examines three issues: 1. whether treating natural
resources as assets when they are used requires symmetrical accounting when they enter ...
J Levin - Lectures Notes, Department of Economics, Stanford …, 2003 - stanford.edu
These notes develop the theory of supermodular games. Supermodular games are those
characterized by “strategic complementarities”–roughly, this means that when one player
takes a higher action, the others want to do the same. Supermodular games are ...
S Athey, D Coey… - 2011 - nber.org
Set-asides and subsidies are used extensively in government procurement and natural
resource sales. We analyze these policies in an empirical model of US Forest Service timber
auctions. The model fits the data well both within the sample of unrestricted sales where ...
OF Lazareva, SP Vecera, J Levin… - Behavioural processes, 2005 - Elsevier
Abstract Can nonhuman animals attend to visual stimuli as whole, coherent objects? We
investigated this question by adapting for use with pigeons a task in which human
participants must report whether two visual attributes belong to the same object (one- ...
J Levin - American Literary History, 1994 - JSTOR
William James can hardly be faulted for acknowledging, in an 1894 review of Henry Rutgers
Marshall's Pain, Pleasure, and Aesthetics, that" one's first impulse is to shy away from any
book with the word'Aesthetics' in its title, with the confident expectation that, if read, it could ...
[CITATION] oRelational Incentive Contracts. pAmerican Economic Review
J Levin - Vol, 2003
[CITATION] Control rights and relational contracts
J Levin… - manuscript, Stanford and Chicago Universities, 2003
J Levin - Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and …, 2000 - isle.oxfordjournals.org
Readers of Glen A. Love's" Science, Anti-Science, and Ecocriticism"(ISLE 6.1) who expect a
response such as this to leap to the defense of a strong culturalist critique of scientific
practice may be disappointed by what follows. I agree with the broad contours of Love's ...
L Einav, M Jenkins… - 2008 - stanford.edu
Abstract We study the adoption of automated credit scoring at a large auto finance com $
pany and the changes it enabled in lending practices. Credit scoring appears to have
increased profits by roughly a thousand dollars per loan. We identify two distinct ben $ ...
[CITATION] A note on global games with overlapping generations
J Levin - 2001 - working paper, Stanford University
L Einav, T Kuchler,
JD Levin… - 2011 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LEARNING FROM SELLER EXPERIMENTS
IN ONLINE MARKETS Liran Einav Theresa Kuchler Jonathan D. Levin Neel Sundaresan
Working Paper 17385 http://www.nber.org/papers/w17385 ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ECONOMICS OF INTERNET
MARKETS Jonathan D. Levin Working Paper 16852 http://www.nber.org/papers/
w16852 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 ...
J Levin - How to measure the fiscal deficit: analytical and …, 1993 - books.google.com
IN THE SEARCH for comprehensive concepts portraying government interaction with the
rest of the economy, it is important to keep in mind the starting point for many such concepts—
the government's overall cash deficit or surplus, hereafter referred to as the cash deficit— ...
[CITATION] Pricing, Matching and Efficiency in Health Plan Choice
K Bundorf, J Levin… - mimeograph, Stanford University, 2008
[CITATION] On ecocriticism (a letter)
J Levin - PMLA, 1999
[CITATION] The economy and the environment: revising the national accounts
J Levin - IMF Survey, 1990
[CITATION] pEstimating Dynamic Models of Imperfect Competitionq, forthcoming Econometrica
P Bajari, L Benkard… - 2006
J Levin - Contemporary Literature, 2000 - JSTOR
" T~ his essay will attempt to isolate and make sense of a subtle rift that runs through what
can somewhat loosely be described as post-Thoreauvian American literary naturism.
Lawrence Buell uses the phrase" literary naturism" in his invaluable study The ...
[CITATION] 1960The Export Economies: Their Pattern of Development in Historical Perspective
JV Levin - Cambridge, Mass
MC Scholtz, MSJ van Rensburg, JL Roos… - African Journal of …, 2006 - ajol.info
Page 1. South African Psychiatry Review • November 2005 153 ORIGINAL ARTICLE S Afr
Psychiatry Rev 2005;8:153-159 Early non-psychotic deviant behaviour as an endophenotypic
marker in bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder and schizophrenia ...
TF Bresnahan… - 2012 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND MARKET
STRUCTURE Timothy F. Bresnahan Jonathan D. Levin Working Paper 17889
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17889 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from US Cities.”
J Levin… - Journal of industrial Economics
[CITATION] The Export Economy
J Levin - 1960 - Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, …
[CITATION] forthcoming, Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
W Adams, L Einav… - American Economic Review
[CITATION] Auctions for Complements and Substitutes
J Levin - 1996 - M. Phil thesis, Oxford Unviersity
[CITATION] Forum on Literatures of the Environment
J Levin - PMLA, 1999
[CITATION] Comparing open and sealed bid auctions: Theory and evidence
S Athey, J Levin… - Euro Conference on “Auctions and Market Design: …, 2004
[CITATION] The Role of Taxation in the Export Economies
J Levin - Readings on Taxation in Developing Countries, 1964
J Levin - IMF Working Paper No. 93/53, 1993 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Environmental effects which were insignificant in the past, when the fewer
concentrations of population or products of modern technology allowed the vast absorptive
capacity of nature to act as a sink, are quite evident today--in the pollution of air or water, ...
OF Lazareva, JI Levin, SP Vecera… - Diversity of …, 2006 - books.google.com
Page 27. Chapter 1: The search for object-based attention in pigeons: Failure and success Olga
F. Lazareva, Jonathan I. Levin, Shaun P. Vecera and Edward A. Wasserman Much research on
attention has focused on the type of representation on which it operates. ...
[CITATION] 'Entering the Modern Composition': Gertrude Stein and the Patterns of Modernism
J Levin - Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism, 1992
[CITATION] Import Cycle and Fiscal Policy in Colombia
J Levin - Public Finance, 1968
L Einav… - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract. The field of Industrial Organization has made dramatic advances over the last few
decades in developing empirical methods for analyzing imperfect competition and the
organization of markets. We describe the motivation for these developments and some of ...
[CITATION] Organizational Form and Market Structure
J Levin… - 2002 - mimeo, Stanford University
[CITATION] Realism and Imagination in the Thought of Henry and William James: A Conversation
J Levin… - The Henry James Review, 1997 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
[CITATION] Total Preparedness: The case for the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness project
J Levin - National Review. http://www. nationalreview. com/ …
[CITATION] New Federal Preemption Regulations Level the Playing Field for National Banks
JL Levin - CONSUMER FIN. LQ REP., 2004
[CITATION] Towards a Literary Ecology: The Literature of Place
J Levin - Arbejdspapir
E Kinyanda, S Musisi, C Biryabarema… - … health and human …, 2010 - biomedcentral.com
Background Despite the recent adoption of the UN resolution 1820 (2008) which calls for the
cessation of war related sexual violence against civilians in conflict zones, Africa continues
to see some of the worst cases of war related sexual violence including the mass sexual ...
R Parkes‐Ratanshi, L Bufumbo… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Despite expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Sub-Saharan Africa,
there are few data on patients' perceptions about starting ART to explore issues affecting
decisions to start ART in eligible individuals during the ART roll out. Methods We studied ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Estimating Dynamic Models of Imperfect Competition.”
P Bajari, CL Benkard… - Econometrica
[CITATION] eLiquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending, fAmerican Economic Review, 99 (1)
W Adams, L Einav… - March, 2009
[CITATION] oLiquidity Constraints and Their Causes: Evidence from Subprime Lending
W Adams, L Einav… - pNovember 2006. Working Paper
[CITATION] Monetary Transfers in Repeated Games
J Levin - manuscript Stanford University, 1998
[CITATION] Poetry for young people: Walt Whitman
J Levin - New York: Sterling, 1997
[CITATION] Profit GARICANO AND SANTOS: REFERRALS Policies
J Levin… - Review of Economic Studies, April, 1996
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