Simon Mongey

Simon Mongey is a Senior Research Economist and Faculty Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, with affiliations at the NBER and e61 Institute. He contributes to macroeconomic research, focusing on labor market power, monopsony, and policy implications of market structure.

• Education: Not explicitly stated

Research Interests

His work bridges macroeconomics and labor economics, examining oligopsony, minimum wage efficiency, and merger impacts on labor markets. Key areas include general equilibrium modeling, market power quantification, and pandemic policy evaluation. Recent projects analyze discrete choice theory and tax progressivity interactions.

Article Trends

Simon’s publications since 2021 emphasize labor market monopsony (2024, 2023), merger guidelines (2025), and wage inequality (2025). His empirical work leverages Census data and online job postings (2023) to quantify market dynamics.

Scientific Awards

• NSF Grant #2214431 (2022)
• NSF Grant #2214460 (2022)

Simon Mongey’s research informs antitrust policy and macroeconomic labor frameworks. He develops quantitative models for market power, merger effects, and pandemic responses, with methodological contributions to recruiting intensity and firm dynamics.