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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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Expert Focus: From academia to the administration, Equitable Growth scholars transition to executive branch

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NBER Summer Institute 2021 Round-up: Week 2

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Kate Bahn testimony before the Joint Economic Committee on monopsony, workers, and corporate power

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A Canary in the Coal Mine for the Failure of U.S. Competition Law: Competition Problems in Prescription Drug Market

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Competitive Edge

New U.S. antitrust legislation before Congress must mandate an anticompetitive presumption for acquisitions of nascent potential competitors by dominant firms

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The future of work and worker power post-COVID a key topic at the 2021 Labor and Employment Relations Association annual conference

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The CREATES Act shows legislation can stop anticompetitive pharmaceutical industry practices

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Statement for the Record by Michael Kades for the House Committee on Oversight and Reform

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The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act is a down payment on the future of antitrust enforcement

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to coordinate antitrust and competition policies across the federal government

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Competitive Edge

Competitive Edge: Big Ag’s monopsony problem: How market dominance harms U.S. workers and consumers

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A new vision for antitrust enforcement in the United States

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Competitive Edge

A monthly series that discusses how to increase competition in the U.S. economy.

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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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