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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.…

By: Chiara Chanoi (opens in a new tab)

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…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

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…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

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…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

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…

By: Megan Rivera (opens in a new tab)

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…

By: Ignacio González (opens in a new tab), Juan A. Montecino (opens in a new tab), Joseph E. Stiglitz

Request for Proposals: The economic effects of the Inflation Reduction Act (opens in a new tab)

RFPs APR 2, 2025

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

Understanding market concentration in the AI supply chain (opens in a new tab)

Blog JAN 28, 2025

Artificial intelligence is more than just the applications we use, such as chatbots and predictive algorithms. Beneath the surface of AI lies a technology stack that is increasingly concentrated at…

By: Tejas Narechania (opens in a new tab)

Request for Proposals: Promoting competition and supporting workers in an era of AI innovation (opens in a new tab)

RFPs NOV 20, 2024

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars (opens in a new tab)

RFPs OCT 30, 2024

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

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

Hospital consolidation and rising health care prices lead to job losses for U.S. workers (opens in a new tab)

Issue Briefs JUL 25, 2024

The majority of working-age adults in the United States have health insurance via their employers. Theory and a growing body of research suggest that when the cost of workers’ benefits…

By: Zarek Brot-Goldberg (opens in a new tab), Zack Cooper (opens in a new tab), Stuart Craig (opens in a new tab), Lev Klarnet (opens in a new tab)

Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector? (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers APR 24, 2024

From 2002 to 2020, there were over 1,000 mergers of US hospitals. During this period, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took enforcement actions against 13 transactions. However, using the FTC’s…

By: Zarek Brot-Goldberg (opens in a new tab), Zack Cooper (opens in a new tab), Stuart V. Craig, Lev Klarnet (opens in a new tab)

Combating market power through a graduated U.S. corporate income tax (opens in a new tab)

Issue Briefs APR 15, 2024

Editor’s note: This version has been updated from the original publication on April 15, 2024. The update corrects a prior underestimate of the revenue potential from graduated corporate tax rates…

By: Kimberly Clausing (opens in a new tab)

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,…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

Matching competition policy in the U.S. healthcare industry to address a new generation of challenges in provider markets (opens in a new tab)

Issue Briefs MAR 20, 2024

Antitrust policy in the U.S. healthcare sector is perennially 10 years behind the industry. But at the start of the Biden administration in early 2021, there was hope for a…

By: Barak D. Richman (opens in a new tab)

Request for Proposals: How effective was the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession for workers? (opens in a new tab)

RFPs MAR 18, 2024

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

The impacts of increasing U.S. hospital consolidation on Medicaid recipients (opens in a new tab)

Blog JAN 25, 2024

The U.S. healthcare sector is a consequential part of the overall economy. As of 2021, U.S. healthcare expenditures alone would rank third among the world’s largest economies in terms of…

By: Sunita Desai (opens in a new tab), Kyle Smith (opens in a new tab)

What the research says about the impacts of hospital consolidation across the United States (opens in a new tab)

Blog DEC 6, 2023

When patients in the United States rely on hospitals for care, they are often at their most vulnerable, such as during acute illnesses, when suffering major injuries, or while giving…

By: Amy Phillips (opens in a new tab)

Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars (opens in a new tab)

RFPs NOV 30, 2023

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

Sameera Fazili and Mary Beth Maxwell join Equitable Growth’s Board of Directors (opens in a new tab)

Blog NOV 15, 2023

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced the addition of two new members to its board of directors: Sameera Fazili, former deputy assistant to the president and deputy director…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

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…

By: Amy Phillips (opens in a new tab)