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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FTC action addresses corporate conduct that harms U.S. workers

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Equitable Growth comments to the Federal Trade Commission on the agency’s proposed competition hearings

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Why market competition matters to equitable growth

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The impact of antitrust on competition

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Competitive Edge: There is a lot to fix in U.S. antitrust enforcement today

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Supreme Court decision on credit cards undermines competition, celebrates price increases, and will contribute to economic inequality

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Anticompetitive mergers: They are not just a threat to U.S. consumers anymore

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Anticompetitive mergers in labor markets

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Unlocking Antitrust Enforcement: New Yale symposium examines proposals to make antitrust enforcement more effective

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The links between stagnating wages and buyer power in U.S. supply chains

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Presentation: Merger Enforcement Statistics

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Who becomes an inventor in America? The importance of exposure to innovation

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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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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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