Thibault SchrepelPublished 31 July 2026
Reading suggestions, July 2026
Academic papers and articles Thibault Schrepel enjoyed reading in July 2026. The monthly readings feed into The Competition System, his newsletter on digital competition.
The as-efficient competitor testDraft EU merger guidelinesAI agent collusionUser innovationCreative destruction
From The Competition System
Antitrust
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Assessing the Draft EU Merger GuidelinesPadilla, NLR
- A Farewell to Net Neutrality: Implications for Internet Access and E-CommerceSpulber, NLR
- A Large-Scale Evaluation of Merger SimulationsBhattacharya et al., NBER
- Data Neutrality, Data Supply, and Market CompetitionFang & Kim, NBER
- Do managerial incentives facilitate anti-competitive behavior?Giebel & Rösner, JEBO
- On the Fragility of AI Agent CollusionKeppo et al., arXiv
- Competition Agencies Compute. The Law Still Assumes They Read.Schrepel, Kluwer
- Google mega-fine to slash taxpayers’ payments to BrusselsPolitico
AI
- Statistically Undetectable Backdoors in Deep Neural NetworksBogdanov, Rosen & Vafa, arXiv
- A global workspace in language modelsAnthropic, X
- Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mindBasu, Nature
- Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophersThe Economist
- Nvidia, Other Tech Giants Launch AI Defense Alliance Following OpenAI Hacking IncidentWSJ
- Europe Will Never Be an AI SuperpowerBenner & Hensing, FP
Econ
- Creative accumulation and creative destruction in the economyMcKelvey & Ebersberger, JEE
- Open user innovation, producer innovation and industrial dynamicsAlmudi et al., Research Policy
- ‘Systems of use’: A lens to more deeply study user innovationvon Hippel, Research Policy
- Understanding innovation in coopetitive contexts: A meta-analysisLi, He & Palmer, Technovation
- Do digital M&As drive higher acquisition premiums?Huang et al., Technovation
- Large-SME collaboration in open innovation ecosystemsYoon & Oh, Journal of Open Innovation
- A Functional Analysis of Prediction Market RegulationOudin, SSRN
- Europe chose insurance. America chose growth.Lustig, The Two Cents
Others
- Peter Howitt on Creative Destruction in the Age of AIPodcastSchrepel, Scaling Theory
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