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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

U.S. labor market concentration, competition, and worker bargaining power as employment trends shift from manufacturing to services (opens in a new tab)

Blog SEP 6, 2023

Labor market concentration and competition in the United States has received renewed and well-deserved attention over the past several years. Competitive labor markets are critical engines of economic growth, worker…

By: Laura Alexander (opens in a new tab)

New data and analysis suggest private equity takeovers of U.S. medical practices cause anticompetitive harms to patients, insurers, and employers in local markets (opens in a new tab)

Blog JUL 10, 2023

The linked resources and the PDF for this piece were updated on February 20, 2024. Private equity firms are deeply engaged in buying up and consolidating medical practices across the…

By: Laura Alexander (opens in a new tab)

Equitable Growth delivers comment letter responding to the Federal Trade Commission’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Non-Compete Clauses (opens in a new tab)

Blog APR 20, 2023

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth this week delivered a comment letter responding to the Federal Trade Commission’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Non-Compete Clauses. In our comment letter,…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

Major federal ‘Big Tech’ antitrust case against Google will test the strength of current U.S. antitrust laws in new digital markets (opens in a new tab)

Blog MAR 13, 2023

A high-profile antitrust enforcement action taken in January by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice against Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit—one of the largest technology companies in the…

By: Laura Alexander (opens in a new tab)

New research suggests connections between market concentration and the exercise of political power in the United States (opens in a new tab)

Blog JAN 12, 2023

Consolidation of markets at the hands of U.S. companies that are actively engaged in mergers and acquisitions raises an important question about the political ramifications of market concentration. Do mergers…

By: Laura Alexander (opens in a new tab)

Supermarket chain Kroger’s takeover of rival Albertsons is a test for U.S. antitrust law on pre-closing dividends (opens in a new tab)

Blog NOV 16, 2022

The recently proposed $24.6 billion takeover of the nation’s fourth-largest supermarket chain, Albertsons Companies Inc., by the second-largest chain, Kroger Co., poses an array of serious and apparent antitrust concerns…

By: Laura Alexander (opens in a new tab)

Equitable Growth names Shayna Strom as interim president and CEO (opens in a new tab)

Blog SEP 8, 2022

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced that Shayna Strom has been named its interim president and CEO. Strom comes to the organization with decades of experience bridging nonprofits,…

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)

Common ownership in the U.S. economy (opens in a new tab)

Blog MAY 25, 2022

Large investment management companies such as BlackRock Inc., The Vanguard Group Inc., and Fidelity Investments—each with tens of trillions of dollars of assets under management—offer a wide array of mutual…

By: Florian Ederer (opens in a new tab), Bruno Pellegrino (opens in a new tab)

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…

By: Michael Kades (opens in a new tab)

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will bring new perspectives on mass incarceration to U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence (opens in a new tab)

Issue Briefs APR 7, 2022

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made history today after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 53 to 47. The Senate vote sealed…

By: Shanteal Lake (opens in a new tab)

Walmart is a monopsonist that depresses earnings and employment beyond its own walls, but U.S. policymakers can do something about it (opens in a new tab)

Issue Briefs MAR 29, 2022

Labor income inequality is a major cause for concern in the U.S. economy. For 35 years beginning around 1980 the wages of workers steadily grew more and more unequal. This…

By: Justin Wiltshire (opens in a new tab)

Equitable Growth’s academic research and policy priorities shine through at Southern Economic Conference 2021 (opens in a new tab)

Blog DEC 9, 2021

The Southern Economic Association recently held its 91st Annual Meeting, gathering a diverse group of scholars from U.S. and international universities to discuss their research in theory and applied economics.…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

Equitable Growth announces record $1.39 million in research grants for scholars examining economic inequality and growth (opens in a new tab)

Blog AUG 30, 2021

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced its 2021 research grants, with funding of $1,392,795—a record-breaking level—awarded to 62 researchers. These scholars are studying the various channels through which…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

Myths about competition in the global economy harm humanity and our planet (opens in a new tab)

Blog AUG 11, 2021

Competition around the globe is facing a crisis today. Mega corporations benefit from neoliberal ideologies and lax enforcement of the antitrust laws. Growing market power among fewer and fewer firms…

By: Raksha Kopparam (opens in a new tab)

In Conversation with Michelle Meagher (opens in a new tab)

In Conversation AUG 11, 2021

Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…

By: Michael Kades (opens in a new tab)

Competitive Edge: Congress needs to restore the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to seek monetary remedies when companies break the law (opens in a new tab)

Blog JUL 28, 2021

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: Michael Kades (opens in a new tab)

Competitive Edge: The silver lining for antitrust enforcement in the Supreme Court’s embrace of “textualism” (opens in a new tab)

Videos JUL 28, 2021

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: Andrew I. Gavil (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)