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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Testimony by Heather Boushey before the House Budget Committee

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The state of U.S. federal antitrust enforcement

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Low interest rates can dampen competition and hurt productivity growth

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The once and future role of strikes in ensuring U.S. worker power

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Competitive effects of mergers with regulatory divestiture of assets: Evidence from airline industry

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A unified analysis of declining dynamism and rising mark-ups

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The causal effect of antitrust enforcement

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Research finds the domestic outsourcing of jobs leads to declining U.S. job quality and lower wages

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Prescription drug pricing reforms in Congress are one step closer

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How and why innovation in the United States must diversify

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The implications of U.S. gender and racial disparities in income and wealth inequality at each stage of the innovation process

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Imperfect competition, compensating differentials and rent sharing in the U.S. labor market

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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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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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