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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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Hospital consolidation and rising health care prices lead to job losses for U.S. workers

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

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

Competition
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TOPICS: Concentration
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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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The corporate savings glut and the economic possibilities of the future

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Engineering, industrialism, and socioeconomic orders in the Second Industrial Revolution

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TOPICS: Concentration
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What’s happening to the growth of productive new firms?

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How minimum-wage increases affect the flow of firms

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What are the factors behind high economic rents?

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Trying to get a grip on the gig economy

CompetitionLabor
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The consequences of unskewed U.S. business growth

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Equitable growth and Southern California’s aerospace industry

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TOPICS: Concentration
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Explaining the “History of Technology” series and equitable growth

CompetitionInequality & MobilityLabor
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Why ‘disgorging the cash’ can undermine economic growth

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Checking in on the herd of unicorns

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We need better data on U.S. entrepreneurship

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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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Michael Navarrete

Brookings Institution

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Umberto Muratori

European University Institute

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Thomas Hwang

Harvard University

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Nathan Miller

Georgetown University

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Erick Sager

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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