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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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 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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Joint Ventures in Dialysis Care: Improving Coordination or Enabling Market Power?

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Do Mortgage Lenders Compete Locally? Implications for Credit Access

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Buyer Power in the Beef Industry

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Welfare Effects of Common Ownership

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Myths about competition in the global economy harm humanity and our planet

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In Conversation with Michelle Meagher

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Competitive Edge: Congress needs to restore the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to seek monetary remedies when companies break the law

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Competitive Edge: The silver lining for antitrust enforcement in the Supreme Court’s embrace of “textualism”

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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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Bruno Pellegrino

University of Maryland

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John Kwoka

Northeastern University

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Thomas Hwang

Harvard University

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Mario Leccese

University of Maryland

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Lena Song

New York University

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