Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Randal C. Picker, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Randy analyzes the Open Apps Market Act, and, more specifically, the security issues raised by the “open downloads provision.” This is a central topic, something we also find in the Digital...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Alexandre de Streel, Professor of digital law at Namur University, Academic co-director at Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) and Chair of the expert group for the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. Alex explores three reasons why regulators are (now) moving...Read More
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 Colomo — all fantastic academics, to three sessions during which they discussed their top 3 academic articles ever...Read More
Welcome to the Competition Stories – a bimonthly exploration of recent courts and competition law agencies’ decisions. Authored by Makis Komninos, a renowned expert in the field, this new column aims to go through the latest and most important developments in competition law of the last two months. We call them “stories” because Makis has promised to include some anecdotes from...Read More
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 researchers, and their top 3 things they’d change in antitrust. It will be both friendly and informative. Join...Read More
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). I thought I would develop my thinking further in a post. Here goes. The DMA appears mainly concerned with the redistribution of wealth. It takes existing digital infrastructures as set,...Read More
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 the Oxford Dictionary). Chapter III intends to “set out the practices of gatekeepers that limit contestability and that are unfair” (p. 13), but one...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School. Prof. Priest responds to several recent antitrust proposals targeting big tech companies, reminds us of the difference with non-tech monopolies, and comes back on the consumer welfare standard. I am confident that...Read More
Welcome to the Competition Stories – a bimonthly exploration of recent courts and competition law agencies’ decisions. Authored by Makis Komninos, a renowned expert in the field, this new column aims to go through the latest and most important developments in competition law of the last two months. We call them “stories” because Makis has promised to include some anecdotes from...Read More
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021. The one for April is authored by Douglas H. Ginsburg, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Professor of Law, Global Antitrust Institute, Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and Jacob Philipoom, Law clerk to...Read More
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021. The one for March is authored by Michal Gal, Professor and Director of the Center for Law and Technology at the University of Haifa, and President of the International Association of Competition Law Scholars (ASCOLA). In it, Michal questions...Read More
Welcome to the Competition Stories – a bimonthly exploration of recent courts and competition law agencies’ decisions. Authored by Makis Komninos, a renowned expert in the field, this new column aims to go through the latest and most important developments in competition law of the last two months. We call them “stories” because Makis has promised to include some anecdotes from...Read More
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. Our first episode is already available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and YouTube! Another one is coming later this week…Read More
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021. The one for February is authored by A. Douglas Melamed, Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford University. In it, Doug explains that the (multiple) acquisitions of nascent competitors by monopolists might violate Section 2. He goes...Read More
Introducing 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.” DALL·E is a real technological breakthrough, “a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text-image pairs. […] It has...Read More
