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Hospital consolidation matters (opens in a new tab)
Reports Apr 4, 2024
The U.S. policy landscape is replete with reports from organizations across the political spectrum decrying the lack of competition in hospital markets around the nation and the resulting high prices,…
The consequences of U.S. hospital consolidation on local economies, healthcare providers, and patients (opens in a new tab)
Reports Nov 15, 2023
Policymakers, regulators, stakeholders, and academics have yet to grapple with the full cross-sectional impacts of hospital mergers. While the evidence is clear that consolidation leads to higher prices in concentrated…
Protecting livestock producers and chicken growers (opens in a new tab)
Reports May 5, 2022
For more than a decade, ranchers, contract chicken growers, and other livestock producers have expressed concerns about the actions of the meatpackers who buy the livestock and slaughter it, and…
Restoring competition in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Reports Nov 19, 2020
Excessive market power plagues the U.S. economy. Market power increases the cost of goods and services for consumers, depresses prices and wages for those who supply dominant firms, and retards…
The state of U.S. federal antitrust enforcement (opens in a new tab)
Reports Sep 17, 2019
Competition policy in the United States has become a major public policy issue for the first time in decades. In industry after industry—the internet, agriculture, airlines, and employment markets, among…
U.S. antitrust and competition policy amid the new merger wave (opens in a new tab)
Reports Jul 27, 2017
Over the past 20 years, major sectors of the U.S. economy have undergone sweeping consolidation, from airlines to brewing, cable television to drug companies, eyeglasses to finance, and grocery stores…
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