John Kwoka Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics j.kwoka@northeastern.edu 617.373.2252 Expertise antitrust policy, COVID-19, industrial organization, regulation John Kwoka in the Press Article The American Prospect The Bottom-Up Battle Against Corporate Power Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka has shown empirically through retrospective studies that mergers typically lead to increases in price, meaning that the conservative belief that mergers always enhance consumer welfare doesn’t even hold up on its own terms. But in addition, the consumer welfare standard ignores how consumers can also be producers, workers, entrepreneurs, and small-business […] Article The American Prospect Why Congress Must End America’s Merger Free-for-All That’s not an exception; prices rose significantly in three-fourths of mergers studied after they were approved by the antitrust agencies, according to studies conducted by Northeastern University professor John Kwoka. Article The New Yorker Is It Time to Break Up Big Ag? In 2015, John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University, analyzed the effects of forty-six mergers approved by the federal government. Kwoka found that, as a result of thirty-eight of them, prices for consumers rose by more than ten per cent on average, an empirical rebuke to the contention of Robert Bork that mergers are either […] Article Law360 FTC Chairman Warns About Basing Policy On Recent Studies As an example, Simons pointed to “Mergers, Merger Control and Remedies,” a book by John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, that attempted to assess how well U.S. merger enforcement is working by looking at a set of merger retrospective studies. The House panel’s report cites the book and said Kwoka’s scholarship concludes that the agencies […] Article Quartz The single, simple rule change that could force tech platforms to compete The result is that lots of harmful mergers are approved, argues John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University who has researched mergers in concentrated markets. Article Beating up on Big Tech is fun and easy. Restraining it will require rewriting the law “In the search for quantification and scientific precision, economists have taken to defining too narrowly what competition means and how it should be measured,” said John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University. Article Big Tech Goes on Shopping Spree, Brushing Off Antitrust Scrutiny “Their regular practice is to vacuum up everybody in their space that could have emerged as a rival or may have been an alternative in some fashion,” said Northeastern University economist John Kwoka, who studies merger enforcement. Article How ‘Stealth’ Consolidation Is Undermining Competition John Kwoka at Northeastern Universityhas documented that the FTC, while continuing to challenge mergers resulting in just two to four competitors, has since the mid-2000s been less likely to challenge mergers that result in five to eight competitors. Article How ‘Stealth’ Consolidation is Undermining Competition John Kwoka at Northeastern University has documented that the FTC, while continuing to challenge mergers resulting in just two to four competitors, has since the mid-2000s been less likely to challenge mergers that result in five to eight competitors. Article The Sun Chronicle From roots to rock: Gillette Stadium, Xfinity host growing list of attractions “The nominal price of a ticket for a particular performance is usually established by the artist and the manager, sometimes with input from the promoter,” writes John E. Kwoka, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied and written on the concert industry, in a published study. John Kwoka for Northeastern Global News Would stronger antitrust laws have prevented shortages of ventilators and hospital beds? Would stronger antitrust laws have prevented shortages of ventilators and hospital beds? What’s wrong with the T-Mobile and Sprint merger? What’s wrong with the T-Mobile and Sprint merger? New economic forum to examine income inequality, healthcare in America New economic forum to examine income inequality, healthcare in America Does merger control work? Does merger control work? 3Qs: Boon or bubbles for U.S. economy in 2014? 3Qs: Boon or bubbles for U.S. economy in 2014? Banking on a solution Banking on a solution
Article The American Prospect The Bottom-Up Battle Against Corporate Power Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka has shown empirically through retrospective studies that mergers typically lead to increases in price, meaning that the conservative belief that mergers always enhance consumer welfare doesn’t even hold up on its own terms. But in addition, the consumer welfare standard ignores how consumers can also be producers, workers, entrepreneurs, and small-business […]
Article The American Prospect Why Congress Must End America’s Merger Free-for-All That’s not an exception; prices rose significantly in three-fourths of mergers studied after they were approved by the antitrust agencies, according to studies conducted by Northeastern University professor John Kwoka.
Article The New Yorker Is It Time to Break Up Big Ag? In 2015, John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University, analyzed the effects of forty-six mergers approved by the federal government. Kwoka found that, as a result of thirty-eight of them, prices for consumers rose by more than ten per cent on average, an empirical rebuke to the contention of Robert Bork that mergers are either […]
Article Law360 FTC Chairman Warns About Basing Policy On Recent Studies As an example, Simons pointed to “Mergers, Merger Control and Remedies,” a book by John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, that attempted to assess how well U.S. merger enforcement is working by looking at a set of merger retrospective studies. The House panel’s report cites the book and said Kwoka’s scholarship concludes that the agencies […]
Article Quartz The single, simple rule change that could force tech platforms to compete The result is that lots of harmful mergers are approved, argues John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University who has researched mergers in concentrated markets.
Article Beating up on Big Tech is fun and easy. Restraining it will require rewriting the law “In the search for quantification and scientific precision, economists have taken to defining too narrowly what competition means and how it should be measured,” said John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University.
Article Big Tech Goes on Shopping Spree, Brushing Off Antitrust Scrutiny “Their regular practice is to vacuum up everybody in their space that could have emerged as a rival or may have been an alternative in some fashion,” said Northeastern University economist John Kwoka, who studies merger enforcement.
Article How ‘Stealth’ Consolidation Is Undermining Competition John Kwoka at Northeastern Universityhas documented that the FTC, while continuing to challenge mergers resulting in just two to four competitors, has since the mid-2000s been less likely to challenge mergers that result in five to eight competitors.
Article How ‘Stealth’ Consolidation is Undermining Competition John Kwoka at Northeastern University has documented that the FTC, while continuing to challenge mergers resulting in just two to four competitors, has since the mid-2000s been less likely to challenge mergers that result in five to eight competitors.
Article The Sun Chronicle From roots to rock: Gillette Stadium, Xfinity host growing list of attractions “The nominal price of a ticket for a particular performance is usually established by the artist and the manager, sometimes with input from the promoter,” writes John E. Kwoka, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied and written on the concert industry, in a published study.