Issue Areas

As hospitals merge over time, FTC enforcement actions remain low (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Jul 25, 2024

The impact of rising U.S. healthcare prices on changes in unemployment across the income distribution (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Jul 25, 2024

U.S. hospital prices have grown faster than any other major category of consumption (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Jul 25, 2024

The vast majority of local U.S. labor markets have few employers competing for workers (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Jul 13, 2021

Largest deals generate a substantial number of investigations, but the smallest share of U.S. merger filing fees (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2021

U.S. Gross Domestic Product growth has outpaced growth in antitrust appropriations (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2021

U.S. antitrust enforcement resources have fallen recently (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2021

U.S. antitrust resources trail enforcers’ needs and workloads (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2021

The vast majority of local U.S. labor markets have few employers competing for workers (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Jan 21, 2021

Merger filings have risen sharply, but enforcement actions are stagnant (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Nov 17, 2020

Total civil antitrust enforcement actions (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Nov 17, 2020

Larger full-service restaurants employ the most workers in the sector (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2020

Small businesses dominate the U.S. restaurant industry (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2020

U.S. restaurant workers faced pervasive economic inequality even before the coronavirus recession (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2020

Competitive Edge: The states’ view of vertical merger guidelines in U.S. antitrust enforcement (opens in a new tab)

In the News FEB 27, 2020

By: Phil Weiser (opens in a new tab)

Impact of scope of the patent rule on prescription drug costs (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Dec 13, 2019

Legal rule alters pharmaceutical companies’ settlement behavior (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Dec 13, 2019

Post-Actavis, parties continue to settle but without payments (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Dec 13, 2019

U.S. antitrust enforcement resources have fallen recently (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Oct 16, 2019

Male CEOs are much more likley to have pro-Republican preferences than female CEOs (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Oct 7, 2019

U.S. CEOs’ pro-Republican preferences vary by region (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Oct 7, 2019

U.S. CEOs disproportionately display pro-Republican preferences (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Oct 7, 2019

Merger enforcement rate peaked in 2009 (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 23, 2019

Since 2010 merger filings have risen sharply, but enforcement actions are stagnant (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 23, 2019

Prior to 2010, merger filings and enforcement actions tracked closely (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 23, 2019

GDP growth has outpaced growth in antitrust appropriations (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 19, 2019

Individuals fined have seen a very slow uptake since 2000 (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 19, 2019

Lower inequality closes 70 percent of the mobility gap (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 19, 2019

There is no obvious relationship between top tax rate and growth (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 18, 2019

Wealth in the United States is increasingly concentrated at the top (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 18, 2019

U.S. civil nonmerger actions have fallen to historic lows (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

Breakdown of U.S. merger filing fees to federal antitrust enforcement agencies – Table (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

Largest deals generate a substantial number of investigations, but the smallest share of merger filing fees (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

Criminal antitrust filings have fallen to historical lows (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

Fewer corporations are being fined for antitrust violations (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

Corporate criminal antitrust fines have increased but with significant variation (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

Individual fines vary significantly from year to year (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

More antitrust defendants face incarceration time since late 1990s (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Sep 17, 2019

Merger enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 24, 2019

Merger enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 24, 2019

Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcement actions (excluding mergers) (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 24, 2019

The decline of civil nonmerger actions brought by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 24, 2019

The decline of anti-monopoly enforcement in the United States (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 24, 2019

An example of anticompetitive input foreclosure (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 6, 2019

Markups have tripled since 1980, a sign of increased monopoly power (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations May 1, 2019

Generic competition dramitically lowers drug prices Final (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Mar 7, 2019

Impact of court decisions on frequency of pay-for-delay settlements (opens in a new tab)

Visualizations Mar 7, 2019