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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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Mark-ups in the cement industry: An evolution of scale economies and market power

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Do merger reviews promote competition and stall consolidation?

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Cannabis-infused dreams: A market at the crossroads of criminal and conventional

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A large-scale evaluation of merger simulations

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Vision 2020

Combating the market power of U.S. corporations over workers and consumers

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The curious case of the federal prosecutor who sided with defendants

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Hearing with tech CEOs sets stage for new legislation to tackle anticompetitive conduct by dominant firms in the U.S. economy

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More resilient small U.S. restaurants and their workers can exit the coronavirus recession and sustain an equitable economic recovery

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Antitrust experts call on Congress to address failings in antitrust law to preserve competition and prevent monopolies in digital marketplaces

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Competitive Edge: The future of vertical mergers and the thing called ‘EDM’

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Equitable Growth launches Vision 2020 book with discussion of research and policy ideas

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Equitable Growth introduces book of innovative policy ideas for 2020

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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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