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Antitrust:
- The Enigmas of Monopoly Power (Hovenkamp – NLR)
- Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2025 (Standford et al. – NLR)
- A Decade of OECD Competition Trends, Data and Insights (OECD)
- Nascent competition and killer acquisitions in digital markets (Melo e Lemos & Resende – JAE)
- How to spot a monopoly (Albrecht – Works in Progress)
Digital:
- Brussels is done being the world’s digital policeman (Haeck & O’Regan – Politico)
- 2025 LLM Year in Review (Karpathy – X)
- Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Replace Law Professors? (Cope et al. – SSRN)
Econ:
- When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (Bursztyn et al. – AER)
- The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications (Benkard et al. – NBER)
- Good Data and Bad Data: The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination (Farboodi et al. – NBER)
- How Brussels writes so many laws (Garicano – Substack)
- The Best Philosophy Lectures on YouTube (Henderson – Substack)
- Saloni’s guide to data visualization (Dattani – Substack)
- Learn Your Way (Google)
Special issue:
- Revisiting Antitrust in the Age of Great-Powers Competition (Barnett – NLR)
- The DSA, Brussels Effect, and Global Competitiveness (Sekwenz – NLR)
- Return-to-Office Policies and AI Knowledge Sharing (Durango-Cohen et al. – NLR)
- Understanding Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Lehr et al. – NLR)
- European Digital Sovereignty: From Naïveté to Sustainability? (Bénabou – NLR)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel