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Horng Chern Wong

Horng Chern Wong is an assistant professor of economics at Stockholm University. Before joining Stockholm University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at CREST, École Polytechnique. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick. His work lies at the intersection of labor economics, macroeconomics, and spatial economics. His research explores how firm market power and worker bargaining power shape wages and welfare.
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Swedish Workers Lose Out In M&A Even When CEOs Gain

Jakob Beuschlein
Summary Teaser: In a new working paper, Jakob Beuschlein, Jósef Sigurdsson, and Horng Chern Wong find that workers at acquired firms in Sweden experience wage cuts. Rather than from the increased monopsony power of employers, these wage cuts are due to rent redistribution toward higher CEO pay.

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