Financialization

Investors should not be fooled by the myth that private equity investments provided outsized returns over the last 13 years.

Policy makers and health care operators should ensure that the REIT business model is compatible with long-term priorities in health care delivery.

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.

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

In this paper, we explore the importance of different hospital system ownership structures by comparing a non-profit system and a PE owned one

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

This paper examines the process of financialization as it has emerged in the healthcare sector, with particular attention to hospital systems.

The time is ripe for Congressional action to curb wealth extraction from our healthcare system.

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

This paper is an examination of the size of retirement savings in the US; a brief review of earlier, largely unsuccessful attempts by PE firms to gain access to the savings of individuals; and, a discussion of PE’s foray into life insurance and annuities