Many parts of the legal system pursue “fair” distributions of wealth or economic status. Antitrust law does not. The antitrust statutes target practices that reduce output or threaten monopoly (measured through prices, output, quality, or innovation) not distributive outcomes.

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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...

Return-to-Office Policies and AI Knowledge Sharing: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

We develop a game-theoretic model to analyze optimal workplace arrangements in AI-enhanced teams where knowledge sharing is subject to location-dependent...

European Digital Sovereignty: From Naïveté to Sustainability?

Two decades of hyperactive EU digital rule-making have not delivered “digital sovereignty,” but instead exposed a strategic naïveté: Brussels built...

Revisiting Antitrust in the Age of Great-Powers Competition

US antitrust law has traditionally paid little attention to global competitiveness and industrial policy objectives. This reflects a commitment to...

Reading suggestions – November 2025

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include post-profit antitrust, anticompetitive directors, the dynamic competition approach, Moore's Law, GenAI...

EU Digital Regulation as Industry Shaping Policy: The DSA, Brussels Effect, and Global Competitiveness

The European Union’s recent wave of digital regulations, especially the Digital Services Act (DSA), highlights a strategic use of law...

The Rise of Industrial Policy in Europe and the Search for Growth and Innovation: A Golden Opportunity for Competition Authorities

This paper argues that the unintended and unanticipated costs of globalization revealed during the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020...

AI, Data, And Leveraging Strategies: Implications For Antitrust

In product markets that rely heavily on artificial intelligence (AI), firms both use data and generate data. For a multiproduct...

Antitrust and Great Powers Rivalry

“Great nations” rivalry includes all aspects of economic rivalry, so it is natural that the great nations consider antitrust a...

US Antitrust Cases

By Koren W. Wong-Ervin

EU Competition Cases

By Alice Setari and Mario Siragusa

Latin American Cases

By Marcela Mattiuzzo

TECH MONOPOLY

BY HERBERT HOVENKAMP

Crane's Cartel

By Daniel Crane

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