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Antitrust:
- Cartel Management Services (Hovenkamp & Schrepel – SSRN)
- Fairness and Redistribution in Antitrust Law (Hovenkamp – NLR)
- Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima on Computational Antitrust in Brazil (Schrepel & Ribera Martinez – SCA)
- The Innovation Defence: A Capabilities Test for Merger Review (Petit & Helfat – SSRN)
- Copyright Policy Options for Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gans – JLAE)
- Celebrating European Law and Economics (European Journal of Law & Econ)
- Mergers and R&D Investment: A Unified Approach (Moraga-González & Motchenkova – SSRN)
AI:
- The Matthew Effect at Scale: Attention Scarcity and the AI Output Explosion (Schrepel – NLR)
- Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things (Cunningham – Causal Inference)
- The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits) (Kasy – Journal of Economic Literature)
- Attention (And Money) Is All You Need: Universities Are Struggling to Keep AI Talent (Akcigit et al. – NBER)
- Towards End-to-End Automation of AI Research (Lu et al. – Nature)
- Why Artificial Intelligence Detectors Could Penalize Academic Writing (Hu – Nature Human Behaviour)
- How to Build an AI Scientist: First Peer-Reviewed Paper Spills the Secrets (Castelvecchi – Nature)
- EU Regulation Review: Live AI Audit of EU Regulations (Grok – bettereu.com)
Econ:
- Economic Growth and the Rise of Large Firms (Chen – Econometrica)
- Noah Smith on Blogging, Al Economics, and Elite Overproduction (Justified Posteriors)
Others:
- Why Diversity Beats Genius (Scott Page – Scaling Theory)
- The Costs of Early-Career Disciplinary Pivots: Evidence from Ph.D. Admissions (Xiang et al. – arXiv)
- Economics Title Generator (dariia-m)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel