Antitrust Law
257 publications.
Publications
Newest first, page 5 of 7- 12 November 2021
A conversation with Bill Kovacic
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure to discuss ongoing antitrust evolutions with Bill Kovacic, Professor of Competition Law at GW, Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority, and Former Chair of the Federal…
- 9 November 2021
Competition Stories: July to October 2021
What a period this has been for EU competition law developments! There were no “Stories” for July-August, although there were a few minor developments, which are mentioned below.
- 18 October 2021
Who Owns My Data?
This month’s revelations by Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen have brought renewed scrutiny to Big Tech. Haugen’s concerns relate not to the more common antitrust complaints about firms like Apple, Google, Amazon, and…
- 14 October 2021
Book your introduction to blockchain antitrust
You work for an antitrust agency (anywhere in the world!) and you would like me to introduce #blockchainantitrust to your team? Send me an email at schrepel @ stanford.edu; happy to schedule a lecture with you. All the best…
- 6 October 2021
“Blockchain + Antitrust” is now available
“Blockchain + Antitrust” is officially out. The hardcover version is for sale on all platforms (Book Depository, Elgar, Amazon, Barnes, Thriftbooks...), and you can access the digital version in open-access at…
- 21 September 2021
Blockchain + Antitrust: The Video
Here is a video I made to promote “Blockchain + Antitrust: The Decentralization Formula”.
- 16 September 2021
It’s Not Easy Being a Schumpeterian
As all microeconomics textbooks teach, market power — the ability to raise price above marginal cost — generates a static inefficiency. Market power leaves gains from trade lying on the table, illustrated in blackboard diagrams…
- 7 September 2021
Blockchain + Antitrust
Dear all, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that my book, “Blockchain + Antitrust”, is coming out later this month. I explore the relationship between blockchain and antitrust in it, analyze all existing cases, highlight the mutual…
- 23 August 2021
Security Competition and App Stores
People live on their smartphones. That was true before the pandemic, but app store revenue has grown substantially during the pandemic. In the first half of 2021, consumer global app store spending for the Apple App Store and…
- 31 July 2021
Why Legislators Want to Move Fast and Break Things in the Cyberspace?
As explained in a previous contribution by Georges Priest for Concurrentialiste, legislators across the world are preparing ambitious laws to regulate Big Tech.
- 30 July 2021
Antitrust Jukebox #1 — Video highlights
Last June, Nicolas Petit and I organized what appears to be the first edition of the Antitrust Jukebox. We invited six of our friends — Anna Tzanaki, Babette Boliek, Bill Kovacic, Michelle Connolly, Okeoghene Odudu, Pablo Ibáñez…
- 19 July 2021
Competition Stories: May & June 2021
May and June were two rather uneventful months from the point of view of final decisions or court judgments at EU level. We had two important Opinions, one by Advocate General Bobek in Stichting Cartel Compensation and another by…
- 31 May 2021
Antitrust Jukebox: three (very) unique webinars
Nicolas Petit and I are pleased to welcome you to the Antitrust Jukebox. During three (very) unique webinars, we will question our (very) special guests on their top 3 academic articles ever written, their top 3 advice to young…
- 25 May 2021
A concrete proposal to improve the DMA
A few weeks ago, Nicolas Petit kindly invited me to discuss the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) at the European University Institute. I had prepared one slide for my presentation (above).
- 20 May 2021
Digital Markets Act: a conservative piece of regulation
The Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) is a complex piece of regulation. It includes some great ideas (as tackling predatory innovation) while being surprisingly conservative (defined as “the wish to resist great or sudden change” by…
- 17 May 2021
What to do about the Big Tech Monopolies?
The four Big Tech monopolies in the U.S.—Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple—have been subjected to extraordinary criticism in recent months, from Congressional committees and legislators, from the President who has appointed Big…
- 10 May 2021
Competition Stories: March & April 2021
Time for our “competition stories” for March and April! Which development would you consider as the most important? In my view, the Slovak Telekom judgment of 25 March 2021 definitely deserves the No. 1 position.
- 2 April 2021
A Certain Harm Overlooked: The Case of Nascent Competitors Revisited
Douglas H. Ginsburg and Jacob Philipoom
Scott Hemphill, writing of Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors, posited the following hypothetical situation: If an antitrust agency knew it could prevent a 20% chance of a billion-dollar harm to consumers, then…
- 9 March 2021
Do our Privacy Laws Strengthen the Already Strong?
The rise of the data economy increased concerns that some uses of data will infringe privacy and harm human dignity. Accordingly, privacy and data protection laws, which place limits on the right to collect, store, or use…
- 3 March 2021
Competition Stories: January & February 2021
2021 has started with a number of interesting developments in the procedural area, though nothing ground-breaking.
- 1 March 2021
New podcast: Stanford Computational Antitrust
I am thrilled to be introducing our new podcast. 🎙 Link: https://taplink.cc/stanfordcomputationalantitrust The Stanford Computational Antitrust podcast explores how computational tools impact antitrust analyses and procedures.
- 8 February 2021
Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors under Section 2 of the Sherman Act
The Federal Trade Commission’s case against Facebook is potentially very important, not just for Facebook, but also for antitrust law. The Commission alleges that Facebook unlawfully maintained its social network monopoly in…
- 28 January 2021
Competing with new combinations: the case of DALL·E
In early January 2021, OpenAI introduced DALL·E, a trained neural network “that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.”
- 23 January 2021
Be Careful What You Wish For
Emerging regimes for the regulation of digital markets share a common philosophy. They are grounded on the belief that, if authorities enjoyed more discretion and, in the same vein, if the constraints to which they are subject…
- 18 January 2021
“Computational Antitrust”
I am pleased to be introducing the Computational Antitrust project at Stanford University’s CodeX Center (visit the website). The project gathers over 40 antitrust agencies and 30 scholars.
- 5 January 2021
The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2020
Scientific committee
As in previous years (see 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019), here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles of 2020 on SSRN.
- 22 December 2020
Competition Stories: November & December 2020
2020 ends with many important developments. Let us first start with the new case law from Luxembourg. From a policy point of view, the most important judgment of the last two months is Canal+.
- 17 December 2020
Rethinking Foreclosure Analysis in Antitrust Law: From Standard Stations to Google
Joshua D. Wright and Alexander Krzepicki
Foreclosure is a prominent concept in the antitrust laws and across economics. In the world of exclusionary conduct—whether an American-style monopolization claim or the European abuse-of-dominance variant—foreclosure is the…
- 16 November 2020
Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement
Competition agencies across the world are facing pressure to deal with an ever-expanding set of concerns. For example, many are being urged to do something about increasing consolidation and concentration in markets, to do…
- 9 November 2020
Resources for antitrust law students
Over the last couple of months, I’ve published several articles and chronicles with the hope that they could benefit antitrust (U.S.) and competition law (E.U.) students (as well as the community?!).
- 26 October 2020
Competition Stories: September & October 2020
When Thibault came to me with the idea of publishing a bimonthly review of EU competition law developments, I jumped at the idea. It proved to be quite fun. So here is my first “Stories” covering September-October 2020.
- 20 October 2020
How Venture Capital’s “Exit Strategy” Drives Tech Industry Concentration
Mark A. Lemley and Andrew McCreary
American antitrust tolerates monopoly pricing in order to motivate innovation, believing incumbents’ outsized profits will entice startups to enter, innovate, and overtake them.
- 13 October 2020
Newsletters for antitrust law enthusiasts
Last year, I published a list of podcasts for antitrust law enthusiasts. I am pleased to be posting a new list, this time around, about newsletters.
- 30 September 2020
Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law
A persistent attitude in European Union (“EU”) antitrust law is to prefer to address market power failures that are hard to diagnose ex-post with ex-ante rules and institutions.
- 8 September 2020
Antitrust law professors’ favorite articles
Last year, I asked European professors of competition law to list their three favorite articles ever written in the field (they’re here). Today, I am delighted to be publishing the American counterpart.
- 20 August 2020
Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases?
The pharmaceutical industry presents challenges for courts. Anticompetitive conduct results in significant harms, as patients are not able to afford needed medicines.
- 27 July 2020
Google, Facebook, and Amazon are no platforms
It’s been a while since I wanted to write about Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory because it has significant implications for antitrust law. Today is the day I’m finally doing it. Yay.
- 16 July 2020
“Blockchain Code as Antitrust” in video
Dear all, Vitalik and I are very pleased to present you with this 12-minute video discussing (part of) our article entitled “Blockchain Code as Antitrust”. Thank you for watching!
- 6 July 2020
Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 economic crisis was, first, caused by a cataclysmic exogenous shock which has led to brutal spikes in the demand for products needed to limit the expansion of the pandemic.
- 2 July 2020
A dialogue between Darwin and a blockchain
One day, Darwin encountered a young public permissionless blockchain. Here is the transcript of their conversation (all Darwin’s quotes are directly taken from his book, “On the Origin of Species”)…