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David Berger

Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Economics · Duke University

Professor of Economics at Duke University and Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, working on macro/monetary, housing, labor and finance. Recent work covers monopsony power, minimum wages and labor-market merger guidelines.

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Published Journal of Monetary Economics Published Jul 2025

Merger guidelines for the labor market

David Berger · Thomas Hasenzagl · Kyle Herkenhoff · Simon Mongey · Eric A. Posner

Antitrust review of mergers has historically focused almost entirely on harm to consumers (product-market monopoly), ignoring harm to workers (labor-market monopsony). Following the July 2021 White …

Labor Markets Methodology Inequality Free Read ↗

Published Econometrica Online 1 Jan 2025

Minimum Wages, Efficiency, and Welfare

David Berger · Kyle Herkenhoff · Simon Mongey

Can minimum wages improve welfare through efficiency — by correcting monopsony-driven under-employment — and, if so, by how much? What is the optimal minimum wage, and how much of the welfare gain …

Labor Markets Inequality Public Finance Free Read ↗