Airline Economics Seminar
Michael E. Levine (Speaker)
Professor (Adjunct) of Law
Yale University
Michael E. Levine's unusual combination of experiences has involved him
in the world of air transportation and its regulation as a senior airline executive,
an academic and a government official. He retired from Northwest Airlines in 1999
to return to academic life and is currently Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale.
As an airline executive, Levine served at Continental and Northwest as
an Executive Vice President and was President and CEO of New York Air, guiding that
post-deregulation airline to its first profit.
As an academic, he has previously served as Dean of Yale University's School of
Management and held professorial chairs at Caltech, Yale and USC. He has also been
a member of the law faculty at Harvard and has been an academic visitor at MIT, the
London School of Economics and Duke University. Levine has done pioneering
research on airline deregulation, on the application of market mechanisms to airport
congestion, on committees and agendas and on the origins of regulation and the behavior
of regulatory agencies.
As a government official, Levine was instrumental in bringing about airline deregulation.
In 1978 and 1979, he served as General Director, International and Domestic Aviation,
(the senior staff position at the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board) and devised many
of the mechanisms and practices used to deregulate the industry. Levine holds a bachelor's
degree in philosophy from Reed College and a law degree from Yale. He did graduate
study in economics at Yale and the University of Chicago.
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