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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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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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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NBER Summer Institute 2022 Round-up: Week 2

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Common ownership in the U.S. economy

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A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry

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Protecting livestock producers and chicken growers

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will bring new perspectives on mass incarceration to U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence

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Walmart is a monopsonist that depresses earnings and employment beyond its own walls, but U.S. policymakers can do something about it

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Closing the Innovation Gap in Pink and Black

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Falling Rates and Rising Superstars

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Equitable Growth’s academic research and policy priorities shine through at Southern Economic Conference 2021

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Equitable Growth announces record $1.39 million in research grants for scholars examining economic inequality and growth

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Understanding Amazon: Strategy and Welfare Implications

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The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination Under Endogenous Product Entry: the case of Implantable Medical Devices

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

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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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