Here are Thibault Schrepel's monthly reading suggestions. Topics include innovation on rugged technological landscapes and its implications for competition policy, the error costs of populist antitrust in the wake of the Spirit Airlines collapse, why low merger-prohibition rates say little about deterrence, a computational history of how the U.S. and German press talked about competition, recent antitrust developments across Latin America, two scenarios for U.S.–China AI leadership in 2028, positive alignment and AI for human flourishing, whether the data-center water...

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Introducing Dynamic Competition in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 is the most ambitious economic transformation program in the world today, yet it is widely misunderstood...

Competition Stories: July 2025 – December 2025

This issue presents recent developments in EU competition law enforcement in digital markets. It examines the growing phenomenon of parallel...

Reading suggestions – March 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel's monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI's reshaping of research and publishing, end-to-end automation of scientific inquiry,...

Fairness and Redistribution in Antitrust Law

Many parts of the legal system pursue “fair” distributions of wealth or economic status. Antitrust law does not. The antitrust...

The Matthew Effect at Scale: Attention Scarcity and the AI Output Explosion

Generative AI is lowering the marginal cost of academic writing. A natural prediction is that this will allow more researchers...

Reading suggestions – February 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include the constitutional limits of the Digital Markets Act, antitrust’s fixation on...

Reading suggestions – January 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include market power and competition regimes, the limits of AI scaling, the...

The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2025

As for previous years, here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles posted on SSRN during 2025.

Reading suggestions – December 2025

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include measure market power, nascent competition and killer acquisitions, the end of...

Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2025

There were a number of decisions from October through December 2025, including: (1) FTC v. Meta, in which the court...

The Enigmas of Monopoly Power

Market power can be assessed in antitrust cases by two methods often described as “alternatives”. For unilateral conduct, however, they...

Understanding Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

EU Digital Sovereignty has emerged as a key policy topic amid growing geopolitical tensions fuelled by an AI arms race...

US Antitrust Cases

By Koren W. Wong-Ervin

EU Competition Cases

By Alice Setari and Mario Siragusa

Latin American Cases

By Marcela Mattiuzzo

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