Managing Research and Data for Reproducibility and Transparency

Presentation at the OPRE Open Science Methods Meeting, October 2019http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156406/1/Levenstein OPRE 2019 FINAL.pdfDescription of Levenstein OPRE 2019 FINAL.pdf : PresentationSEL

Best Practices for Protecting and Sharing Data

Presented as part of Session on The Conflict Between Research Transparency and Respondent Confidentiality at the 73rd Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in Denver, Colorado on May 17, 2018ICPSR's approach to safe and ethical research using confidential datahttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144521/1/AAPOR 2018.pd

Breaking up is Hard to Do: Determinants of Cartel Duration

We estimate the impact of cartel organizational features, as well as macroeconomic fluctuations and industry structure, on cartel duration using a dataset of contemporary international cartels. We estimate a proportional hazards model with competing risks, distinguishing factors which increase the risk of “death by antitrust” from those that affect “natural death,” including defection, dissension or entry. Our analysis indicates that the probability of cartel death from any cause increased significantly after 1995 when competition authorities expanded enforcement efforts toward international cartels. We find that fluctuations in firm-specific discount rates have a significant effect on cartel duration, whereas market interest rates do not. Cartels with a compensation scheme – a plan for how the cartel will handle variations in demand – are significantly less likely to break up. In contrast, retaliatory punishments in response to perceived cheating significantly increase the likelihood of natural death. Cartels that have to punish are not stable cartels.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78004/1/1150_Suslow.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78004/3/1150_Suslow.pd

Connecting Data Sharing to Article Publishing How to Maximize the Impact of Your Research

Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Associationhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143814/1/AERA presentation April 15, 2018.pdf5912

Presentation to Use Cases Breakout, OpenDP Community Meeting, May 14, 2020

Presentation to the Use Cases Workshop of the OpenDP Community Meeting, describe in more detail at https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/opendp.Sloan FoundationHarvard UniversityMicrosofthttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155361/1/OpenDP Use Cases workshop May 14, 2020.pdfDescription of OpenDP Use Cases workshop May 14, 2020.pdf : Presentatio

Price-Fixing Hits Home: An Empirical Study of U.S. Price Fixing Conspiracies

This paper analyzes all Section 1, Sherman Act price fixing cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice between 1961 and 2013. Over 500 cartels were prosecuted during this period. The determinants of cartel formation and cartel breakup are estimated, including analysis of the impact of the discount rate, business cycles, and antitrust policy. We find that cartels are more likely to breakup during periods of high real interest rates, presumably because higher interest rates are associated with greater impatience. The adoption of a stronger amnesty policy has no significant impact on cartel breakup over this period, although the results suggest some association with lower cartel formation rates.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116016/1/1290_Levenstein.pd

Use Cases for Differential Privacy with Tiered Access to Restricted Data

2020 OpenDP Community Meeting, Use Cases Workshophttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156408/1/OpenDP Use Cases workshop May 14, 2020.pdfDescription of OpenDP Use Cases workshop May 14, 2020.pdf : PresentationSEL

Price Wars and the Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre-World War I Bromine Industry

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72383/1/1467-6451.00039.pd

Addressing Challenges of Restricted Data Access

Standardizing Data Access, Sharing, and Use Agreements Workshop at Harvard Universityhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156407/1/Levenstein Harvard-Microsoft DUA workshop March 2020.pdfDescription of Levenstein Harvard-Microsoft DUA workshop March 2020.pdf : PresentationSEL

Reproducibility and Replicability in Economic Science

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143813/1/Reproducibility and Replicability in Economic Science Levenstein NAS presentation February 22, 2018.pdf59129Description of Reproducibility and Replicability in Economic Science Levenstein NAS presentation February 22, 2018.pdf : Presentatio