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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Do Mortgage Lenders Compete Locally? Implications for Credit Access

Competition
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Buyer Power in the Beef Industry

Competition
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Welfare Effects of Common Ownership

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

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

Competition
Competitive Edge

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

Competition
Equitable Recovery

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

LaborCompetitionInequality & Mobility
Executive action to spur equitable growth

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

Competition
Competitive Edge

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

CompetitionLabor
working paper

Labor Non-Compete Agreements: Tool for Economic Efficiency, or Means to Extract Value from Workers?

CompetitionLabor
Boosting Wages

Boosting wages when U.S. labor markets are not competitive

CompetitionLaborInequality & Mobility
Expert Focus

Expert Focus: Understanding the role of market structure in equitable growth

CompetitionInequality & Mobility
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