Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
mergers. We then simulate a representative set of U.S. mergers in order to evaluate merger review thresholds. Our main …While the labor market implications of mergers have been historically ignored as "out of market" effects, recent … actions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) place buyer market power (i.e., monopsony) at the forefront of antitrust policy. We …