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Antitrust:
- Did Enforcers Make the Right Call When Clearing Google/Doubleclick? (Christian Bergqvist – NLR)
- The Growing Complexity of Digital Economies over the GenAI Waterfall (Stocker & Lehr – NLR)
- Dynamic Capabilities Analysis and Merger Control (Frederic Jenny – NLR)
- Neo-Brandeisianism: A Policy at War With Itself (Thomas A. Lambert – NLR)
- The Future of Antitrust Populism (Herbert Hovenkamp – SSRN)
- Economics or Populism? The Battle for the Future of Antitrust (Erik Hovenkamp – SSRN)
- Say Goodbye to the Antitrust Consumer Welfare Standard (Robert H. Bork Jr. – WSJ)
- Efficiencies in merger control (OECD)
- The Woman Leading the Surging MAGA Antitrust Movement (Nancy Scola – Politico)
- Labor Monopsony and Antitrust Enforcement: A Distorting Mirror (Manne et al. – DePaul)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Trends in Artificial Intelligence (Bond)
- AI-Powered Lawyering (Schwarcz et al. – SSRN)
- To Help AI Startups Compete, Use Revenue-based Thresholds (Guido Appenzeller and Matt Perault – a16z)
- Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy (Seidl & Schmitz – JEPP)
Digital:
- Bitcoin bros at ‘the club’ may stop US gov’t from buying BTC (Ciara Lyons – CoinTelegraph)
- We’re Back to the Actually Internet (Kaitlyn Tiffany – The Atlantic)
- Regulation and its metrics: three views of the cathedral (Radaelli & Rangoni – JEPP)
Econ:
- Management and Firm Dynamism (Sadun et al. – NBER)
- Complex systems approaches to 21st century challenges (JEBO)
Other:
- The pivot penalty in research (Hill et al. – Nature)
- The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance (Jin Wang & Wenxiang Fan – Nature)
- Call for Papers: Hayek and the Machines
Thibault Schrepel
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