Tag: Monopsony

By Mark Anderson (University of Idaho) & Max Huffman (Indiana University) The sharing economy brings together the constituent parts of a business enterprise into a...

In an effort to improve profits, employers sometimes collude in local labor markets. This has occurred recently in the markets for hardware and software...

The novel strain of coronavirus COVID-19 has upended countless areas of life, from home economics to the structure of global supply chains. Key supplies...

No-poaching agreements are agreements among rival employers to not recruit or hire another firm’s employees. These agreements affect the price of an input and...

The U.S. has faced a persistent nursing shortage since World War II. Monopsony power is often considered a contributing factor to this chronic shortage....

No-poaching clauses in franchise agreements recently have attracted widespread attention from the press, state Attorneys General, private litigations, and Congress. The concern is that...

Confusion and disagreement over the distinction between paying student-athletes to play and providing them with financial aid for their education has made intercollegiate sports...

November 2018 Consumer Welfare On Trial at the FTC By Marshall Steinbaum (Roosevelt Institute)1 On November 1st, the FTC held its public hearing on the consumer...

Posted by Social Science Research Network Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power  By Suresh Naidu,  Eric A. Posner,  E. Glen Weyl Recent research indicates that labor market power has...