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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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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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Equitable Growth’s Amanda Fischer joins others in comment letter to antitrust regulator on harmful U.S. banking consolidation

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Testimony by Michael Kades before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law on digital markets

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Competitive Edge: Remedying monopoly violation by social networks—the role of interoperability and rulemaking

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Interoperability as a competition remedy for digital networks

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Main Street’s workers, families, and small businesses are now suffering as Wall Street prospers from policies to fight the coronavirus recession

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Equitable Growth announces record $1.07 million in research grants on inequality and broadly shared growth

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The role of culture and competition in media diversity: Historical evidence from U.S. radio stations

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

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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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