Topic Concentration

Concentration refers to two similar but distinct issues—the size of firms relative to the economy as a whole and the size of firms relative to their competitors. Equitable Growth is interested in both aspects, with an eye to how much concentration is occurring, its direct effects on prices and wages, and its indirect effects on innovation, entrepreneurship, and inequality.

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The consequences of U.S. hospital consolidation on local economies, healthcare providers, and patients

Competition
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TOPICS: Concentration
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New research suggests connections between market concentration and the exercise of political power in the United States

Competition
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Supermarket chain Kroger’s takeover of rival Albertsons is a test for U.S. antitrust law on pre-closing dividends

Competition
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Walmart is a monopsonist that depresses earnings and employment beyond its own walls, but U.S. policymakers can do something about it

CompetitionLabor
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Falling Rates and Rising Superstars

CompetitionTax & Macroeconomics
Competitive Edge

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

CompetitionLabor

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Coronavirus Recession

How to bring down the price of drugs such as the novel coronavirus therapy remdesivir

CompetitionFamilies
Past Event

Restoring Competition in the United States: A Vision of Antitrust Enforcement for the Next Decade

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

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

Competition
Competitive Edge

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

Competition
working paper

Interoperability as a competition remedy for digital networks

Competition
Coronavirus Recession

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

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

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

CompetitionInequality & Mobility
Vision 2020

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

CompetitionInequality & MobilityLabor
Coronavirus Recession

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

LaborCompetitionInequality & Mobility
Competitive Edge

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

Competition
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