Issue Areas
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is engaged in an array of issues to advance evidence-based ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth.
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Washington Center for Equitable Growth awards $1.3 million to scholars exploring the connection between economic inequality and growth (opens in a new tab)
Press Releases AUG 30, 2021
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American Antitrust Institute names Equitable Growth’s Michael Kades to Advisory Board (opens in a new tab)
Press Releases DEC 4, 2018
AI, Tech & Energy
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and the energy transition affect workers, inequality, and broad-based economic growth.
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how macroeconomic policies and better economic measurement can promote stable and broad-based economic growth.
Political Economy & Democracy
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how economic inequality shapes political power and democratic institutions, and how that in turn affects broad-based economic growth.
Taxation
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth.
Competition & Economic Dynamism
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth.
Household Economic Security
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth.
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity.
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth.
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Terms and conditions for generative AI users outline a new legal framework that puts U.S. consumers at risk (opens in a new tab)
Essays Aug 20, 2026
Generative AI, or genAI, is a form of artificial intelligence that produces content in response to prompts and includes large language model chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude.…
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ASSA 2026 Round-up: Day 3 (opens in a new tab)
Blog Jan 6, 2026
Yesterday was the third and final day of the 2026 annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, which is organized by the American Economic Association. The 3-day conference, held…
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ASSA 2026 Round-up: Day 2 (opens in a new tab)
Blog Jan 5, 2026
Yesterday was the second day of the 2026 annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, which is organized by the American Economic Association. The 3-day conference, held in Philadelphia…
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ASSA 2026 Round-up: Day 1 (opens in a new tab)
Blog Jan 4, 2026
Yesterday was the first day of the 2026 annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, which is organized by the American Economic Association. The 3-day conference, held in Philadelphia…
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What impact is artificial intelligence having on the U.S. labor market and the nation’s economy? (opens in a new tab)
Essays Nov 14, 2025
As new and groundbreaking technologies emerge, they can function as a blank canvas onto which people project both aspirations and anxieties. Artificial intelligence—despite its quick uptake in broader society and…
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Equity Prices, Market Power, and Optimal Corporate Tax Policy (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers Jul 22, 2025
We study the optimal design of corporate tax policy in a textbook life-cycle model featuring two key deviations: (i) firms are imperfectly competitive and (ii) households save by purchasing equity…
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Nancy L. Rose (opens in a new tab)
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Steven C. Salop (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Economics and Law
Georgetown University
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Elena Prager (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
University of Rochester
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Suresh Naidu (opens in a new tab)
Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics
Columbia University
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Stephanie Chapman Weishaar (opens in a new tab)
Senior Manager
Cornerstone Research
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Timothy Krueger (opens in a new tab)
Program Manager
Case Western Reserve University
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John Kwoka (opens in a new tab)
Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics
Northeastern University
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Aaron S. Kesselheim (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Medicine
Harvard University
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Ratib Ali (opens in a new tab)
Associate
The Brattle Group
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Ezra Karger (opens in a new tab)
Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Simcha Barkai (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
Boston College
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Umberto Muratori (opens in a new tab)
Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellow
European University Institute
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Conor Walsh (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
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Devesh Raval (opens in a new tab)
Economist
Federal Trade Commission
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David Howell (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Urban Policy
The New School
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Gene Kimmelman (opens in a new tab)
Senior Counselor
U.S. Department of Justice
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Hannah Rubinton (opens in a new tab) Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
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Alex Xi He (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Maryland
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Michael Barr (opens in a new tab)
Vice Chair for Supervision
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Mark Cooper (opens in a new tab)
Director of Research
Consumer Federation of America
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Jonathan B. Baker (opens in a new tab)
Research Professor of Law Emeritus
American University
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Lisa Cook (opens in a new tab)
Member
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Michael Navarrete (opens in a new tab)
Graduate Student
Brookings Institution
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Seula Kim (opens in a new tab)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University
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Zack Cooper (opens in a new tab)
Associate Professor
Yale University
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Zarek Brot-Goldberg (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
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