issue Competition

Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth.

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Monopoly power threatens broader economic growth and exacerbates inequality by increasing prices, hindering new business formation, stifling innovation, and diminishing workers’ wages. Current research on the U.S. economy increasingly finds decreasing competition and increasing concentration across industries. Equitable Growth supports research to understand the causes and impacts of increasing market power and to develop policy proposals that will strengthen competition.

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The impacts of increasing U.S. hospital consolidation on Medicaid recipients

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What the research says about the impacts of hospital consolidation across the United States

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U.S. labor market concentration, competition, and worker bargaining power as employment trends shift from manufacturing to services

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Major federal ‘Big Tech’ antitrust case against Google will test the strength of current U.S. antitrust laws in new digital markets

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New research suggests connections between market concentration and the exercise of political power in the United States

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The state of U.S. federal antitrust enforcement

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Congressional panel investigates the market power of the ‘Big Four’ online platforms

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Research and resources on the 2020 presidential debate issues and themes

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Modern U.S. antitrust research supports strict enforcement of the law

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Modern U.S. antitrust theory and evidence amid rising concerns of market power and its effects

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Inflation inequality in the United States is due to imbalanced product innovation

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U.S. Congress continues to make progress on drug price competition

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Past Event

Research on Tap—New frontiers in antitrust: Pathways to a competitive economy

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Competitive Edge

Competitive Edge: Principles and presumptions for U.S. vertical merger enforcement policy

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How market power has increased U.S. inequality

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Killer Acquisitions

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U.S. Congress begins to restore competition to the drug industry

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Competitive Edge

Competitive Edge: Crafting a monopolization law for our time

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Blog

Competitive Edge

A monthly series that discusses how to increase competition in the U.S. economy.

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Experts on the issue

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Gabriel Unger

Stanford University

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Minji Kim

Georgetown University

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Seula Kim

Princeton University

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Aaron S. Kesselheim

Harvard University

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James W. Roberts

Duke University

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