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Simon Mongey NYU PhD Economics
  • 2023 -           Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis​ - Senior Economist
  • 2018 - 23     University of Chicago - Economics Department - Assistant Professor
  • 2017 - 18     Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - Junior Scholar 
  • 2018 -           NBER - Faculty Research Fellow ​
  • 2017             NYU - PhD
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Working papers and in progress
Discrete choice, complete markets and equilibrium - Paper, Slides (SED, 2023)  - Updated March, 2025
​​- with Mike Waugh
Pricing inequality - Paper, Slides (ASSA)  - New Jan, 2025
​​- with Mike Waugh. NBER WP (2025)
Online job posts contain very little wage information - Paper 
​​- with Honey Batra, Amanda Michaud
Labor market power, tax progressivity and inequality - Slides (LAEF, 2025)
​​- with David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, Jaehun Jeong
Unbundling labor -  Slides (NBER 2021)
​- with Chris Edmond 
The Aggregate Effects of Monopsony Power - In preparation for Journal of Economic Perspectives
​​- with David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff
Under revision
Quantifying market power and business dynamism in the macroeconomy - Slides, Paper  - Review of Economic Studies
​- with Jan De Loecker, Jan Eeckhout.
Market structure and monetary non-neutrality - Slides, NBER WP - Econometrica
Assets and job choice: Student debt, wages and amenities - Review of Economic Studies - Conditionally accepted
​- with Mi Luo.
Publications
Merger guidelines for the labor market - Paper - Journal of Monetary Economics  - Forthcoming
​​- with David Berger, Thomas Hasenzagl, Kyle Herkenhoff, Eric Posner
Macro recruiting intensity from vacancy micro data -  Paper  -  AEJ: Macroeconomics  - Forthcoming
​- with Gianluca Violante. Older versisons: NBER WP (2019)  Replication package (inc. tex files)
Minimum wages, efficiency and welfare -  Slides (NBER EFG), Paper, Appendix , Econometrica website - Econometrica , Vol 93, No. 1, 2025
​- with David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff. 90min Slides. Replication package (inc. tex files)
An anatomy of monopsony: Search frictions, amenities and bargaining in concentrated markets - Slides, Paper - NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2023, Vol. 38, 2024
​​- with David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, Andreas Kostøl 
Monopsony amplifies distortions from progressive taxes  -   Paper, Slides- AEA Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 114, 2024​
​- with David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, Negin Mousavi
Labor market dynamics when ideas are harder to find -  Slides, Paper , NBER WP - in The Economics of Creative Destruction, Harvard U. Press, 2023.
​- with Adrien Bilal, Niklas Engbom, Gianluca Violante 
Labor market power  -  Slides, Paper​, Appendix - American Economic Review, Vol. 112, No. 4, 2022
​- with David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff. Replication package (inc. tex files)
Firm and worker dynamics in a frictional labor market -  Slides, Paper, Appendix  - Econometrica, Vol. 90, No. 4,  2022
​- with Adrien Bilal , Niklas Engbom, Gianluca Violante. Replication package (inc. tex files)
Testing and reopening in an SEIR model  -  Paper  - Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 43, 2022
​- with David Berger, Chengdai Huang, Kyle Herkenhoff. Replication package
Which workers bear the burden of social distancing? - Paper - Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 19, ​August 2021
​- with Laura Pilossoph, Alex Weinberg. Replication package
Aggregate recruiting intensity - Slides, Paper, Appendix - American Economic Review, Vol. 108, No. 8, 2018
​- with Alessandro Gavazza, Gianclua Violante
Dormant
Firm dispersion and business cycles: Estimating aggregate shocks using panel data - Slides, Paper
​- with Jerome Williams
Dynamic trade-offs and labor supply under the CARES Act- Paper​, NBER WP
​- with Corina Boar 
Socioeconomic network heterogeneity and pandemic response - Paper, NBER WP
​- with Akbarpour, Cook, Marzuoli, Nagaraj, Saccarola, Tebaldi, Vasserman, Yang
Policy pieces
  • Below you can find pieces written with Jeff Horwich (Senior Economics Writer)  on the post-pandemic U.S. labor market
  • These apply tools from Aggregate Recruiting Intensity, and Macro Recruiting Intensity from Vacancy Micro Data (above)
  • Fewer openings, harder to get hired: U.S. labor market likely softer than it appears - September, 2024
    • ​Financial Times, New York Times
  • Are Job Vacancies Still as Plentiful as They Appear? Implications For a "Soft-landing" - December, 2023
  • U.S. Job Matching Holds Up, Keeping a Soft-landing in Sight - December, 2022
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