Economic observatory / comparative programs

Competition Issue Comparison Studio

Compare research programs, their publications, and the evidence they share. Missing links and coverage gaps are retained rather than inferred.

Open comparison Issue evidence API

3 selected programs3 shared exact items / 7 empty layer cells

Issue programs: 6
Evidence layers: 10
Current memberships: 199
Selected records: 149
Boundary: No composite score

Comparison standard. The studio compares evidence inventories and exact repeated IDs. It never averages HHI, shares, program counts, or legal meaning across issue programs.

Issue program comparison

3 public-interest programs

154 memberships / 149 unique records / updated through Jul 20, 2026

Comparison set

Select two to four issue programs

3 / 4

Memberships: 154; Selected issue assignments
Unique records: 149; Deduplicated by layer and ID
Shared custody: 3; Exact items in 2+ programs
Encoded layers: 23; 7 empty cells retained
Public sources: 17; 2 insights / 5 reports

Linked comparative reading

Selected-program evidence note

Digital gateways / Health intermediaries / Transportation

01 / Common custody

2 exact records span every selected program.

3 exact IDs recur in two or more selected programs. The widest pairwise ledger is Health care intermediaries with Transportation networks: 3 repeated IDs.

Shared in 2+: 3
Shared by all: 2
Shared layers: 2

Repeated-ID layers

2 reports and 1 source

02 / Coverage frontier

6 of 10 layers appear in every selected program.

7 empty issue-layer cells remain in this release. Empty cells mark an encoded inventory gap, not evidence that no relevant record exists.

Universal layers: 6
Partial layers: 4
Absent layers: 0

Present across every program

Markets, Industries, Records, Organizations, Reports, and Sources

Health intermediaries has the most current empty cells (4): Participants, Operators, Insights, and Questions.

03 / Program-specific files

146 of 149 exact records remain program-specific.

Exclusive means assigned to one selected issue program only. It describes this editorial evidence map and does not rank program depth, importance, or legal relevance.

Digital gateways103 exclusive / 2 shared10/10full layer file Health intermediaries23 exclusive / 3 shared6/104 empty Transportation20 exclusive / 3 shared7/103 empty

Shared custody

Repeated IDs reveal common evidence infrastructure.

Overlap means the same encoded report, source, organization, or other record is assigned to both programs. It does not make the programs or their markets equivalent.

Pair ledger

Exact shared items

Digital platform gatewaysHealth care intermediaries

1 reports / 1 sources

Digital platform gatewaysTransportation networks

1 reports / 1 sources

Health care intermediariesTransportation networks

2 reports / 1 sources

Shared inventory

Records used by two or more programs

Evidence layer

Public reports / 3 programsThe U.S. Competition Landscape

Digital platform gateways / Health care intermediaries / Transportation networks

Source custody / 3 programs2022 Economic Census Concentration of Largest Firms

Digital platform gateways / Health care intermediaries / Transportation networks

Public reports / 2 programsWhere Public Market-Share Data Runs Out

Health care intermediaries / Transportation networks