mikelipsitz.bsky.social
Labor and industrial organization economist at UPenn. Exec Director of MAEDS. Webpage: sites.google.com/site/malipsitz
👤 Joined on 04 July 2023
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@mikelipsitz.bsky.socialTight labor markets = better jobs (not just higher pay) www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...
Show PostYet another in the hundreds of stories of "buy up a competitor and then shut them down." It's almost as though there's a pattern here . . . www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Show PostThe FTC complaints analysis is new in this version: @mikelipsitz.bsky.social joins as coauthor and we introduce the first systematic matching of 72,000+ franchise complaints to contract terms. Complaints broadly track overall FTC complaint trends and do not fall as control rises. /11
Show Post🚨🚨Revised paper 🚨🚨 The Balance of Power in Franchising w/@ulrichatz.org, Blake Eliason, @mikelipsitz.bsky.social, @pnorlander.bsky.social, & @stpinto.bsky.social. We built the 1st comprehensive panel dataset of franchise contract terms: 46,000 documents, 4,500 chains, 20+ provisions, 2009-2024. /1
Show PostWhenever we hear about Spirit troubles, corporate shills say it's Lina Khan's fault for blocking the JetBlue merger. But: 1-DOJ Antitrust challenged that merger, not Lina 2-Spirit could've said at trial they'd fail w/o a merger & they didn't 3-The problems are due to high jet fuel, aka Trump's war
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