

Michael Rubens
Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA
Michael Rubens is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA, working in the fields of industrial organization and labor economics. His research agenda focuses on market power and vertical relations, with a special focus on the drivers and consequences of monopsony and oligopsony power. He has published in the RAND Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review.
Recent work by Michael Rubens
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Dominant buyers and rural development: Evidence from China
Agricultural markets in developing countries might be insufficiently competitive. A case study of cigarette manufacturer reforms in China casts new light on the adverse consequences of imperfect competition on rural poverty and economic growth.
Published 06.02.24