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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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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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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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Building a New Consensus on Antitrust Reform

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Competitive Edge

Competitive Edge: Antitrust enforcers need reinforcements to keep pace with algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence

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Equitable Growth releases 2019 Request for Proposals

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Competitive Edge: Protecting the “competitive process”—the evolution of antitrust enforcement in the United States

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In Conversation

In conversation with Herbert Hovenkamp and Ioana Marinescu

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Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power

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Competitive Edge: Judge Kavanaugh – Would he increase the divide between the public and judicial debate over antitrust enforcement?

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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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