On September 19, Professor Lorenzo Luisetto presented his paper, “Collective Bargaining and Monopsony: The Regulation of Noncompete Agreements in France,” at the Collective Bargaining Special Issue Conference hosted by the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. The conference brought together industrial relations scholars from around the world, including keynote speakers Christian Dustmann and David Card (2021 Nobel Prize winner).

In his paper, Professor Luisetto examines how the regulation of noncompete agreements for employees through collective agreements affects firm-level markdowns in the French manufacturing sector. A key takeaway is that, by enhancing compliance or imposing additional requirements, collective bargaining serves as an effective tool to regulate the use of noncompete agreements in France.