Simon Mongey

Simon Mongey is a senior research economist at the Minneapolis Fed and an assistant professor in the University of Chicago's Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously, he was a junior scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and held visiting positions at the University of Bonn and the University of Minnesota. Simon received a B.A. from The University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. from New York University. His research focuses on macroeconomics, labor economics, and market structure. Simon's work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Economic Inequality. In 2019, he was the recipient of a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

How Stricter Merger Guidelines Benefit Workers

Stricter merger policy guidelines will increase competition, leading to higher wages and welfare for workers, writes Kyle Herkenhoff and Simon Mongey. The authors use economic modeling to show that the stricter 2023 Guidelines will improve worker welfare, and that even tighter thresholds can be applied to labor markets to amplify worker welfare gains from antitrust policy.

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