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June 2, 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 competition and technological sovereignty, Bitcoin reserve skepticism and internet culture shifts, management’s role in firm performance, and research methodology penalties.
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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, of ma-nipulating the sale of online display advertising space. Instrumental is a set of services that Google did not develop organically but ac-quired through its 2007 acquisition of DoubleClick. This has led some to question...
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