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Harnessing the transformative benefits of AI to maximize competition, innovation and competitiveness

13 June 2025Nicholas Banasevic

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) has transformative economic potential across all sectors. This article explores how to harness AI’s potential while maintaining an open and competitive economy. It outlines the benefits of effective diffusion of AI, the structure and economics of the AI value chain, the role of investment and partnerships in fostering innovation and competition, and how AI can contribute to European competitiveness.

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6 June 2025

A New Paradigm for Antitrust in the Digital Sector

This article examines why traditional antitrust approaches fail to address digital market power effectively. Analyzing U.S. enforcement data from 1995-2023,...

5 June 2025

Dynamic Capabilities and EC Merger Control: A Difficult Match?

This paper examines the proposed use of “dynamic capabilities” analysis in European merger control as authorities increasingly focus on innovation...

4 June 2025

Merger Enforcement in the High-Tech Economy: The Role for a Dynamic Capabilities Framework

This article examines whether merger enforcement in high-technology industries has systematically failed to account for innovation effects and assesses the...

3 June 2025

Lessons From Empirical Work on Market Dynamics

Ariel Pakes surveys advances in dynamic market analysis since the mid-1990s, highlighting how empirical tools have evolved beyond static frameworks....

2 June 2025

Reading suggestions – May 2025

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include: the populist challenge to consumer welfare standards in antitrust, AI startup...

2 June 2025

Did Enforcers Make the Right Call When Clearing Google/Doubleclick?

Google's activities in the Ad Tech Industry have come under intense fire as the company stands accused, in several jurisdictions,...

30 May 2025

The Growing Complexity of Digital Economies over the GenAI Waterfall: Challenges and Policy Implications

The GenAI genie is out of the bottle. AI, and its vanguard GenAI, is a change agent that profoundly impacts...

29 May 2025

Dynamic Capabilities Analysis and Merger Control: Is A Long-Delayed Convergence Finally on The Way?

Merger control has been traditionally focused on the impact of the structural changes induced by the mergers examinedon the incentives...

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...

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15 December 2022
Alan J. Meese: “The Constitutional Moment That Wasn’t: 1912-1914 and the Meaning of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Alan J. Meese, Ball Professor...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
31 July 2021
Alexandre de Streel (guest article): “Why Legislators Want to Move Fast and Break Things in the Cyberspace?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Alexandre de Streel, Professor of digital law at...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
23 January 2021
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (guest article): “Be Careful What You Wish For”
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
24 April 2023
Ramsi A. Woodcock: “Antimonopolism as a Misunderstanding of Power”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Ramsi A. Woodcock, Associate...
11 September 2023
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz: “A Bad Merger of Process and Substance: Changing the Merger Guidelines and Premerger Review Form”
On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced proposed changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (“HSR Act”) premerger notification form....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
21 November 2022
Ioannis Lianos: “Mind The (Institutional) Gap: Digital Economy, Competition Law and The Toolkit Approach”
Far from its depiction as a well-defined and linear techno-social phenomenon that developed incrementally over the last three decades following...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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....