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Antitrust:
- Computational Antitrust Worldwide: Fourth Cross-Agency Report (Schrepel & Groza, eds. – Stanford CA)
- Antitrust Antidote: March-June 2025 (Nathan Wilson & Koren W. Wong-Ervin – NLR)
- Towards Efficient Data Sharing in Platform Markets (Martens et al. – NLR)
- Computational Antitrust: Evidence From 25 Antitrust Agencies (Schrepel – NLR)
- The DMA: Positive, negative or trade-off effects? (Simone & Laudando – EM)
- An Empirical Account of Margrethe Vestager’s Track Record Before the ECJ (Schrepel & Parrish – ECJ)
- The Commission’s Art.102 TFEU guidelines: consolidation or creation? (Auer & Radic – ECJ)
- Data protection in competition assessments (Robin Vandendriessche & Caroline Buts – ECJ)
- The rhyme and reason of gatekeeper designation under the Digital Markets Act (Bostoen & Monti – JAE)
- Anticompetitive Directors (Van Loo et al. – SSRN)
Artificial Inteligence:
- The Illusion of Thinking (Shojaee et al. – Apple)
- Comment on The Illusion of Thinking (Lawsen – Arvix)
- Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (Krakauer et al. – Arvix)
- Does AI Make Us Stupid? (Tyler Cowen – The Free Press)
- Execution Outcomes of LLM-Generated versus Human Research Ideas (Si et al. – Arvix)
- Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals (Diana Kwon – Nature)
Digital:
- The EU’s GDPR ‘Fix’ Misses the Point Entirely (Mikolaj Barczentewicz – TOTM)
- Technology neutrality in EU digital regulation (Almada – SSRN)
- How Does Privacy Regulation Affect Transatlantic Venture Investment? (Jia et al. – NBER)
Econ:
- Assigning Default Position for Digital Goods (Chen & Schwartz – JIE)
- Measuring Markets for Network Goods (Bursztyn et al.)
- Innovator Networks Within the Firm and the Quality of Innovation (Gibbs et al. – SSRN)
- The Theory of Economic Complexity (Hidalgo & Stojkoski – Arvix)
- AI and Social Media: A Political Economy Perspective (Acemoglu et al. – NBER)
- Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? (Buzzacchi et al. – ICC)
Special Issue:
- On Simple Competition Policy (Keith N. Hylton)
- Harnessing the transformative benefits of AI to maximize competition (Nicholas Banasevic)
- Antitrust In the Digital Era: A Contextual and Fact-Based Approach (Lars Kjølbye)
- Brazilian Merger Policy in Digital Markets: What Can We Expect in 2025? (Juliana Oliveira Domingues)
- Ecosystems in Competition Law: A U.S. Perspective (Christopher S. Yoo)
- A New Paradigm for Antitrust in the Digital Sector (Diana L. Moss)
- Dynamic Capabilities and EC Merger Control: A Difficult Match? (Svend Albaek and Raphaël De Coninck)
- Merger Enforcement in the High-Tech Economy (Richard J. Gilbert)
- Lessons From Empirical Work on Market Dynamics (Ariel Pakes)
- Did Enforcers Make the Right Call When Clearing Google/Doubleclick? (Christian Bergqvist)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
