Thibault SchrepelPublished 31 August 2026
Reading suggestions, August 2026
Academic papers and articles Thibault Schrepel enjoyed reading in August 2026. The monthly readings feed into The Competition System, his newsletter on digital competition.
The EU digital rulebookSuperior bargaining powerBreakupsAgentic AI governanceWhy Europe cannot scale
From The Competition System
Antitrust
- The Law and Economics of Superior Bargaining PowerColangelo, NLR
- Lessons from a Computational Audit of the EC’s Draft Merger GuidelinesSchrepel & Jenny, SSRN
- Antitrust Law’s Breakup ObsessionHovenkamp, SSRN
- Confirmation Bias in LLM Pricing RecommendationsCohen & Hage-Youssef, SSRN
- From Mainframes to MandatesPicker, ICLE
AI
- Agentic profiles for effective AI governanceKasirzadeh & Gabriel, Nature
- Randomness in large language modelsCoqueret et al., arXiv
- Geopolitics of AI: Power, Conflict, and the Future of Global OrderBrands ed., Johns Hopkins UP
- Capitalizing Untethered AI AgentsCowen & Pearson, Substack
- AI in Legal Education: Law School Policy ArchivePerlman, Suffolk University
Econ
- John H. Cochrane on Empty SkiesPodcastSchrepel, Scaling Theory
- Selecting Innovation Funding Mechanisms: A Framework for PolicymakersClancy et al., NBER
- The Value Gap: Europe Cannot ScaleBecker, Benmelech & Monteiro, NBER
- Cultural Capital and the Productivity of IdeasStefanski, St Andrews
- How to Disrupt a MarketGallo et al., arXiv
- The Wisdom of Crowds in MarketsMauboussin & Callahan, Morgan Stanley
- The Routledge Handbook of Classical LiberalismEpstein, Rizzo & Palagashvili eds., Routledge
Others
- We Are Stuck With Human Nature, Not Human IgnoranceWilliams, Conspicuous Cognition
- The boundaries of scholarly knowledgeHidalgo
- Ordinary AbundanceDworkin