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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Competition’s role in controlling prescription drug prices

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To combat rising U.S. prescription drug prices, let’s try competition

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Economic development public policy lessons abound in New York’s Amazon HQ2 debacle

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Evidence indicates that mergers directly suppress wage growth for hospital workers in the United States

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Employer consolidation and wages: Evidence from hospitals

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Who’s afraid of sunlight? Explaining opposition to transparency in economic development

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Competitive Edge: Revitalizing U.S. antitrust enforcement is not simply a contest between Brandeis and Bork—look first to Thurman Arnold

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Equitable Growth antitrust conference presents incoming 116th U.S. Congress and the two antitrust agencies with potential new merger enforcement ideas

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Introducing the “Competitive Edge” blog series

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Competitive Edge: Structural presumption in U.S. merger control policy would strengthen modern antitrust enforcement

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Patent publication and technology spillovers

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New research shows the franchise business model harms workers and franchisees, with the problem rooted in current antitrust law

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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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