Private Equity Archives - Center for Economic and Policy Research

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Briefing/Testimony

Private EquityUSWall Street Comment Letter in Response to the FTC and DOJ’s Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF), joined by the Center for Economic Policy and Research, and United for Respect, sent a comment letter responding to the FTC and DOJ’s request for information on merger enforcement.

CEPR / April 21, 2022

Briefing/Testimony

GovernmentPrivate EquityUSWall Street Letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Proposal to Examine Private Equity

Letter from economist Eileen Appelbaum and Jeffrey Hooke, senior finance lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Eileen Appelbaum / March 17, 2022

Op-Ed/Commentary

Health and Social ProgramsPrivate EquityUSWall Street Envision Healthcare Hits the Skids

Backed into a corner financially, the private equity–owned physician staffing company could put doctors and patients at risk.

Eileen Appelbaum / THE AMERICAN PROSPECT / March 14, 2022

report

Private EquityUSWall Street Literature Review: Monopsony, Employer Consolidation, and Health Care Labor Markets

This literature review summarizes relevant parameters and techniques for measuring the extent of labor market monopsony and discusses estimates of the earnings effects of monopsony, with particular attention paid to employer concentration (or consolidatio

/ January 28, 2022