Simcha Barkai

Simcha Barkai is an Assistant Professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at Boston College's Carroll School of Management, and a Junior Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business's Stigler Center. His research focuses on firm competition, macroeconomic implications, and asset pricing dynamics, particularly analyzing labor and capital share trends in the U.S. economy.

Education:

• BS, Hebrew University
• MS, Hebrew University
• PhD, University of Chicago

Research Interests:

• Decline in labor share of income
• Corporate profit dynamics
• Antitrust policy effects
• Economic concentration trends
• Impact of mergers and acquisitions

His work on labor share decline has been featured in major media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg.

Key Contributions: Analyzes how rising corporate concentration impacts economic outcomes, quantifies contributions of M&A to industry concentration, and evaluates antitrust enforcement's macroeconomic effects. Recent work challenges assumptions around intellectual property capitalization's role in labor share trends.

Grants & Labs: No explicit grants mentioned, but research leverages U.S. Census microdata and collaboration with institutions like DOJ datasets. Active in policy-oriented research teams through Stigler Center affiliations.