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Reading suggestions – October 2025

31 October 2025Thibault Schrepel

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include economic analysis in the DMA, justice automated by AI, the innovation costs of extreme success, agent-based models, how Europe crushes innovation, futarchy, how to master writing, and more.

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29 September 2025

Principal-Agent Dynamics and Digital (Platform) Economics in the Age of Agentic AI

This article applies the principal–agent framework to the use of autonomous AI systems in digital markets. It examines the challenge...

26 September 2025

Personalized Competition Law: The New Frontier of AI Market Governance

Artificial Intelligence technologies prompt several doctrinal shifts in competition law. For AI market governance, this means moving toward personalized enforcement....

24 September 2025

Implementing the European AI Act: Balancing Horizontal Consistency with Sector-Specific Requirements

The European Union’s AI Act applies across a broad range of domains and use cases, aiming to promote horizontal consistency...

22 September 2025

The New AI Regulation in Korea: Problems of Jurisdictional Overlaps

This article explores Japan’s emerging approach to regulating generative AI, balancing innovation and risk. The government emphasizes soft, sector-specific regulation...

19 September 2025

Japanese AI Regulation and Competition Law

This article explores Japan’s emerging approach to regulating generative AI, balancing innovation and risk. The government emphasizes soft, sector-specific regulation...

17 September 2025

Crafting the Regulatory Ecosystem for AI: Competition 2.0

The challenges of the global landscape and new market realities, significantly led by the digital sector and AI development, are...

15 September 2025

Statutory Obsolescence in the Age of Innovation: A Few Thoughts about GDPR

This article examines the problem of statutory obsolescence in the regulation of rapidly evolving technologies, with a focus on GDPR...

12 September 2025

AI Governance as Regulation of Collective Memory

The emerging regulatory landscape in the field of AI will substantially influence the construction of collective memory and play a...

10 September 2025

Dams For The Infinite River: Limits To Copyright’s Power Over The Next-Generation of Generative AI Media

As the levels of speed and control of Generative AI tech increase to a degree that any media can be...

8 September 2025

Governing Hyperobjects: The New Economics of AI Regulation

Artificial intelligence is not simply a hard regulatory problem, but a fundamentally different kind of object – a hyperobject. Like...

5 September 2025

The Regulation that Cried Wolf: Generative AI Training Data and the Challenge of Lawful Scale

This essay examines how the EU’s Digital Markets Act unintentionally reshapes the foundations of generative AI. By barring gatekeepers from...

3 September 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Data Policies: Regulatory Overlaps and Economic Tradeoffs

The Network Law Review is pleased to present a special issue entitled “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI.”...

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4 May 2023
Joseph Farrell: “Looking at More Evidence in Antitrust”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Joseph Farrell, Professor of...
2 November 2023
Vincent Martenet: “Separation of Powers and Antitrust”
The separation of powers principle and antitrust both relate to power and, notably, deal with the concentration of power. However,...
11 May 2020
Richard Whish (guest article): "Do Competition Lawyers Harm Welfare?"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
15 February 2023
Carl Shapiro: “Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Carl Shapiro, Professor at...
6 September 2023
Anu Bradford: “What is at Stake if Antitrust Regulation Fails?”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor...
3 November 2022
Daniel F. Spulber: “How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina”
"How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina", this month's guest contribution by Daniel F. Spulber, Professor of International...
16 June 2020
Scott Hemphill (guest article): “Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
30 September 2020
Nicolas Petit (guest article): “Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
6 June 2022
Renato Nazzini: “Mergers in the Digital Economy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Renato Nazzini, Professor of Law at King’s...
30 August 2023
Luc Soete and Sven Van Kerckhoven: “Deglobalisation and competition policy: the challenge to European economic integration”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Luc Soete, Dean of...
17 February 2020
Daniel Crane (guest article): Democracy and Monopoly in Governments, Markets, and Firms
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles authored by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
27 January 2022
Richard J. Gilbert: “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that thisbe month’s guest article is authored by Richard J. Gilbert, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
18 October 2021
Peter G. Klein: “Who Owns My Data?“
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Peter G. Klein, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor...
15 March 2023
Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine: “Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics...
17 December 2020
Joshua D. Wright & Alexander Krzepicki (guest article): “Rethinking Foreclosure Analysis in Antitrust Law: From Standard Stations to Google”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
27 October 2022
Thomas W. Hazlett: The FTC’s Rendition of the “Cellophane Fallacy”
In the pending case of FTC v. Facebook, the Government alleges price increases for the “free” service. In this zero-price...
4 April 2024
Herbert Hovenkamp: “Antitrust Market Definition: the Hypothetical Monopolist and Brown Shoe”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Herbert Hovenkamp, James B. Dinan...
5 June 2023
The Limits of Antitrust Remedies: Brunswick v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat for the FTC
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by James C. Cooper, Professor...
24 September 2024
Richard N. Langlois: “Memes and Myths of Antitrust”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Richard N. Langlois, Professor...
15 June 2022
Lawrence J. White: “A Riff and a Half on the Delineation of Relevant Markets in Antitrust Cases”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Lawrence J. White, Robert Kavesh Professor of...
22 July 2025
How Employee Networks Drive Innovation, and How Remote Work Alters Both
Our research examines how employee collaboration networks within companies affect the quality of innovation, using data from over 28,000 employees...
18 June 2025
Towards Efficient Data Sharing in Platform Markets
Platforms collect valuable data that they do not share. Welfare then suffers as information asymmetry produces market failures. Current proposals...
8 February 2021
A. Douglas Melamed (guest article): “Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors under Section 2 of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
2 November 2021
Diane Coyle: “Practical approaches to data in competition policy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at...
16 November 2020
Alison Jones (guest article): “Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
6 July 2020
Frédéric Jenny (guest article): “Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
2 May 2022
Thomas B. Nachbar: “An America Fit for the Digital Age?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor of Law at the...
26 August 2022
Jonathan B. Baker: “A Competitive Process Goal Won’t Strengthen Antitrust”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan B. Baker, Research Professor of Law...
27 October 2025
An effects-based approach to the DMA?
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) uses per se prohibitions to regulate “gatekeepers,” prioritising rapid enforcement over case-specific effects analysis....
9 March 2020
William Kovacic (guest article): "Roads Not Taken: The Federal Trade Commission and Google"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
17 May 2021
George L. Priest (guest article): “What to do about the Big Tech Monopolies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law...
21 October 2024
Axel Gautier: “Big Tech Acquisitions And The Ghost Products”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Axel Gautier, Professor at...
2 April 2021
Douglas H. Ginsburg & Jacob Philipoom (guest article): “A Certain Harm Overlooked: The Case of Nascent Competitors Revisited”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
20 October 2020
Mark A. Lemley & Andrew McCreary (guest article): How Venture Capital’s “Exit Strategy” Drives Tech Industry Concentration
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
16 September 2021
Richard N. Langlois: “It’s Not Easy Being a Schumpeterian”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard N. Langlois, Professor of Economics at the...
7 November 2023
Marina Lao: “FTC Rulemaking on Noncompetes”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Marina Lao, Edward S....
25 March 2022
Okeoghene Odudu: “Do competition agencies harm welfare?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Okeoghene Odudu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law; Fellow...
15 November 2022
William H. Page & John E. Lopatka: “Parker v. Brown, Legislative Immunity, and Anticompetitive State Regulation”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by William H. Page, Marshall M....
25 March 2024
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson: “The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor...
20 August 2020
Michael Carrier (guest article): “Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases?”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
14 December 2023
Jason Potts: “Future Markets and the Social Discount Rate: A New Approach to Dynamic Competition Policy”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jason Potts, Distinguished Professor...
6 April 2020
Eleanor Fox (guest article): "POWER: Trust and Distrust"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
15 September 2022
Dennis W. Carlton: “How to make sensible merger policies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Economics Emeritus...
9 March 2021
Michal Gal (guest article): “Do our Privacy Laws Strengthen the Already Strong?”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
12 May 2025
Thomas A. Lambert: “Neo-Brandeisianism: A Policy at War With Itself”
“Neo-Brandeisian” scholars contend that prevailing antitrust law fails to protect democratic values. They propose (1) to replace antitrust’s consumer welfare...
15 August 2022
Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke: “The Darker Sides of Digital Platform Innovation”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of...
17 January 2020
Herbert Hovenkamp (guest article): On The Meaning of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Principle
Dear readers, I am incredibly happy and honored to introduce a new series in which, every month of the year 2020, I...
8 February 2022
Richard Epstein: “The Unwise Extension of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at...
23 August 2021
Randal C. Picker: “Security Competition and App Stores”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Randal C. Picker, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service...
21 July 2022
Jonathan M. Barnett and David J. Teece: “Is the West Giving Away the Game?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan M. Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor...

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