This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in August 2026. You can follow me on X (@ProfSchrepel), LinkedIn (here) or BlueSky (here) to be notified of similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review is also available on X (@NetworkLawRev), BlueSky (here), and LinkedIn (here).
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The Competition System:
Here is what I published this month in The Competition System, where these monthly readings feed into my work:
- Definitions in EU digital law, 2000-2025
- One digital single market, 328 distinct institutions
- The EU rulebook behind the EU rulebook
- Paying the fine is the cheap part
- Where EU digital law stops
Antitrust:
- The Law and Economics of Superior Bargaining Power (Colangelo – NLR)
- Lessons from a Computational Audit of the EC’s Draft Merger Guidelines (Schrepel & Jenny – SSRN)
- Antitrust Law’s Breakup Obsession (Hovenkamp – SSRN)
- Confirmation Bias in LLM Pricing Recommendations (Cohen & Hage-Youssef – SSRN)
- From Mainframes to Mandates (Picker – ICLE)
AI:
- Agentic profiles for effective AI governance (Kasirzadeh & Gabriel – Nature)
- Randomness in large language models (Coqueret et al. – arXiv)
- Geopolitics of AI: Power, Conflict, and the Future of Global Order (Brands ed. – Johns Hopkins UP)
- Capitalizing Untethered AI Agents (Cowen & Pearson – Substack)
- AI in Legal Education: Law School Policy Archive (Perlman – Suffolk University)
Econ:
- John H. Cochrane on Empty Skies (Schrepel – Scaling Theory) 🎧 → Also on Spotify and Apple
- Selecting Innovation Funding Mechanisms: A Framework for Policymakers (Clancy et al. – NBER)
- The Value Gap: Europe Cannot Scale (Becker, Benmelech & Monteiro – NBER)
- Cultural Capital and the Productivity of Ideas (Stefanski – St Andrews)
- How to Disrupt a Market (Gallo et al. – arXiv)
- The Wisdom of Crowds in Markets (Mauboussin & Callahan – Morgan Stanley)
- The Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism (Epstein, Rizzo & Palagashvili eds. – Routledge)
Others:
- We Are Stuck With Human Nature, Not Human Ignorance (Williams – Conspicuous Cognition)
- The boundaries of scholarly knowledge (Hidalgo)
- Ordinary Abundance (Dworkin)