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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)
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)
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)
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)
NBER Summer Institute 2022 Round-up: Week 2 (opens in a new tab)
Blog JUL 26, 2022
On July 11, the National Bureau of Economic Research kicked off its summer institute, an annual 3-week conference featuring discussions and paper presentations on various topics in economics, including disaggregating…
By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)
Closing the Innovation Gap in Pink and Black (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JAN 10, 2022
Recent research shows the negative impact of discrimination not only on the targets of discrimination but also on the economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the…
By: Lisa D. Cook, Janet Gerson (opens in a new tab), Jennifer Kuan (opens in a new tab)
Falling Rates and Rising Superstars (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JAN 7, 2022
Do low interest rates contribute to the rise in market concentration? Using data on firm financials and high frequency monetary policy shocks, we find that falling interest rates disproportionately benefit…
By: Thomas Kroen (opens in a new tab), Ernest Liu (opens in a new tab), Atif Mian (opens in a new tab), Amir Sufi (opens in a new tab)
NBER Summer Institute 2021 Round-up: Week 2 (opens in a new tab)
Blog JUL 26, 2021
On July 12, the National Bureau of Economic Research kicked off its summer institute, an annual 3-week conference featuring discussions and paper presentations on specific subfields of economics, including wealth…
By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)
Testimony by Michael Kades before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law on digital markets (opens in a new tab)
Blog OCT 1, 2020
Michael KadesDirector, Markets and Competition PolicyWashington Center for Equitable Growth“Proposals to Strengthen the Antitrust Laws and Restore Competition Online”Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law October 1, 2020 Thank you…
By: Michael Kades (opens in a new tab)
Main Street’s workers, families, and small businesses are now suffering as Wall Street prospers from policies to fight the coronavirus recession (opens in a new tab)
Issue Briefs SEP 17, 2020
In San Antonio, 10,000 cars lined up to get bags of groceries from a local food bank, waiting hours in the heat for help. In New Orleans, advocates chained themselves…
By: Amanda Fischer (opens in a new tab)
Equitable Growth announces record $1.07 million in research grants on inequality and broadly shared growth (opens in a new tab)
Blog AUG 31, 2020
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced research grants totaling $1,074,060—our largest year to date—to seek evidence on important issues related to the intersections between economic inequality and growth.…
By: Korin Davis (opens in a new tab)
Equitable Growth launches Vision 2020 book with discussion of research and policy ideas (opens in a new tab)
Videos FEB 24, 2020
The need for systemic change, the power of government to improve the U.S. economy and society, and the importance of connecting research, evidence, and data to the U.S. policymaking process…
By: David S. Mitchell (opens in a new tab)
Reforming U.S. antitrust enforcement and competition policy (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 18, 2020
This essay is part of Vision 2020: Evidence for a stronger economy, a compilation of 21 essays presenting innovative, evidence-based, and concrete ideas to shape the 2020 policy debate. The…
By: Fiona M. Scott Morton (opens in a new tab)
Competitive Edge: Jason Furman testifies on the role of data and privacy in online platforms’ market power (opens in a new tab)
Blog OCT 18, 2019
Antitrust and competition issues are receiving renewed interest, and for good reason. So far, the discussion has occurred at a high level of generality. To address important specific antitrust enforcement…
By: Jason Furman (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. antitrust enforcement resources have fallen recently (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations OCT 16, 2019
Testimony by Heather Boushey before the House Budget Committee (opens in a new tab)
Blog SEP 19, 2019
Thank you, Chairman Yarmuth and Ranking Member Womack, for inviting me to speak today. It’s an honor to be here. My name is Heather Boushey and I am President and…
By: Heather Boushey (opens in a new tab)
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Lower inequality closes 70 percent of the mobility gap (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations SEP 19, 2019
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There is no obvious relationship between top tax rate and growth (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations SEP 18, 2019
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Wealth in the United States is increasingly concentrated at the top (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations SEP 18, 2019
Low interest rates can dampen competition and hurt productivity growth (opens in a new tab)
Blog SEP 16, 2019
U.S. interest rates hovered near zero for 7 years after the Federal Reserve slashed rates in 2008 during the Great Recession, with a gradual series of rate hikes then carrying…
By: Somin Park (opens in a new tab)
Inflation inequality in the United States is due to imbalanced product innovation (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAY 20, 2019
A recent study finds an intriguing link between different levels of inflation for products that are purchased by the wealthy, compared to items bought by everyone else in the United…
By: Raksha Kopparam (opens in a new tab)
Competitive Edge: Antitrust enforcers need reinforcements to keep pace with algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)
Blog NOV 13, 2018
Antitrust and competition issues are receiving renewed interest, and for good reason. So far, the discussion has occurred at a high level of generality. To address important specific antitrust enforcement…
By: Terrell McSweeny (opens in a new tab)
Equitable Growth releases 2019 Request for Proposals (opens in a new tab)
Blog NOV 8, 2018
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is mission-driven to advance evidence-based ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. One of the core ways we further that…
By: Korin Davis (opens in a new tab)
Supreme Court decision on credit cards undermines competition, celebrates price increases, and will contribute to economic inequality (opens in a new tab)
Blog JUN 28, 2018
After a court approved AT&T Inc.’s acquisition of Time Warner Inc. earlier this month, a spirited discussion erupted about its implications for future vertical mergers, in which the acquisition involves…
By: Michael Kades (opens in a new tab)
Credit card competition case before U.S. Supreme Court leaves consumers and competition in the balance (opens in a new tab)
Essays FEB 22, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court next week will hear oral arguments in Ohio v. American Express, an antitrust case involving competition in the credit card industry. The U.S. Department of Justice…
By: Michael Kades (opens in a new tab)
Delivering equitable growth: strategies for the next Administration (opens in a new tab)
Blog OCT 31, 2016
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is proud to introduce Delivering equitable growth: strategies for the next Administration. This series of essays serves as a guide to the two presidential…
By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)
Finance and competition in the U.S. economy (opens in a new tab)
Essays SEP 8, 2015
Critiques of the U.S. financial system over the past seven years largely zero in on how it was able to spark a massive recession. But increasingly, some economists, policy makers,…
By: Nick Bunker (opens in a new tab)
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