I share the papers and articles I enjoyed reading this month. This edition runs from why breakup remedies rarely restore competition to confirmation bias in LLM pricing recommendations, a framework for characterizing AI agents for governance purposes, what researchers should report about randomness in large language models, whether Europe can scale, how policymakers should choose between innovation funding mechanisms, cultural resistance to new ideas measured across 23,000 books, the design of interventions that make illicit markets less efficient, the wisdom...

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Reading suggestions – June 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include when and how to rescue efficiencies in horizontal merger control, recent...

Antitrust Antidote: April-June 2026

There were a number of significant decisions from April through June 2026, including: (1) the Eastern District of California’s preliminary...

Reading suggestions – May 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel's monthly reading suggestions. Topics include innovation on rugged technological landscapes and its implications for competition policy,...

Innovation on Rugged Technological Landscapes: Implications for Competition Policy

Digital and technology markets are often analyzed as if innovation moves along a smooth path. We describe an alternative view:...

Latin Antitrust Chronicles: September 2025-March 2026

This edition of the Latin Antitrust Chronicles provides an overview of the main developments that took place in late 2025...

Reading suggestions – April 2026

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI agents and complexity economics in antitrust, the limits of the...

Antitrust Antidote: January-March 2026

There were a number of decisions from January through March 2026, including: (1) the Ninth Circuit’s decision in AliveCor v....

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...

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By Alice Setari and Mario Siragusa

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