Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Herbert Hovenkamp, James B. Dinan University Professor at UPenn Carey Law School and the Wharton School. *** Aside from naked restraints such as price-fixing, antitrust offenses require proof of the defendant’s market power, or ability to profit by raising price...Read More

On March 4, 2024, the European Commission fined Apple €1.84 billion “over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers”. In particular, the Commission was concerned about the anti-steering provisions that Apple imposed on these providers. Although the full decision has not yet been published (I am told it could be a matter of months),...Read More

Legal scholars have long been interested in predicting the effects of new rules and standards. They have focused very little on the timing of regulation. In a recent working paper co-authored with John Schuler, we explore how agent-based modeling can help. Agent-based modeling (“ABM”), as we explain, is a computer simulation with unique agents that...Read More

There were a number of significant developments from the end of 2023 through the beginning of 2024 covering important (and highly debated) topics, such as: (1) the role of contracting as an alternative to vertical integration when determining whether benefits such as the elimination of double marginalization (EDM) are merger specific; (2) who bears the...Read More

Dynamic competition defines an improvement path for antitrust law. At a high level, the dynamic competition approach appears to some as a twenty-first-century equivalent of the Chicago School of Antitrust. A recent article we co-authored shows that the analogy is only partially correct. Unlike the Chicago School of antitrust law, the dynamic competition scholarship is...Read More

Welcome to the Competition Stories – an exploration of recent courts and competition law agencies’ decisions. Authored by Makis Komninos, a renowned expert in the field. This column aims to go through the latest and most important developments in competition law in recent months. We call them “stories” because Makis has promised to include some anecdotes from time to time,...Read More

Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jason Potts, Distinguished Professor of Economics at RMIT University in Melbourne and Co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT * This essay is the result of an ongoing discussion with Nicolas Petit, Joint Chair in Competition Law at...Read More

Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Marina Lao, Edward S. Hendrickson Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. **** In early 2023, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule that would ban virtually all noncompete clauses as “unfair methods of...Read More

This short article serves as an introduction to Thibault Schrepel’s latest working paper, “Decoding the AI Act: A Critical Guide for Competition Experts” (open-access) *** Europe is experiencing a legislative frenzy. In recent months, European institutions have adopted or debated the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), the Digital Services Act (“DSA”), the Data Act, the Data...Read More

This short article serves as an introduction to Thibault Schrepel’s latest working paper, “Being an Arthurian: Complexity Economics, Law, and Science” (open-access) *** Complexity science provides a general framework for approaching all fields of science. Unlike other scientific methods, complexity looks at how multiple interactions between agents (be they humans, insects, animals, companies, etc.) create a...Read More