Michael Rubens is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. He works in the fields of industrial organization and labor economics.
His research agenda aims to increase the understanding of the drivers and consequences of market power in vertically related industries and on factor markets.
Working Papers
(4) Colluding Against Workers (with Vincent Delabastita)
February 2024 – Revise & resubmit (2nd round), Journal of Political Economy
(3) Labor Market Power and Factor-Biased Technology Adoption
March 2024
Publications
(2) Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity
September 2023 – American Economic Review, 113(9) pp. 2382-2410
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(1) Management, Productivity, and Technology Choices: Evidence from U.S. Mining Schools
March 2023 – RAND Journal of Economics, 54(1), pp. 165-186
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In Progress
Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power (with Mert Demirer and Antonio Martner Sota)
Exploiting or Augmenting Labor? (with Yingjie Wu and Mingzhi Xu)
Mergers, Collusion, and Labor Market Power: Theory and Evidence from the United States (with Bradley Setzler and Chen Yeh )