This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in February 2026. You can follow me on X (@ProfSchrepel), LinkedIn (here) or BlueSky (here) to be notified of similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review is also available on X (@NetworkLawRev), BlueSky (here), and LinkedIn (here).
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Antitrust:
- Questioning the Digital Markets Act’s Legality (Schrepel & de Boiscuillé – SSRN)
- Antitrust Law’s Breakup Obsession (Hovenkamp – SSRN)
AI:
- PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists (Zhu et al. – arXiv)
- Generative Artificial Intelligence for Literature Reviews (Wagner et al. – Journal of Information Technology)
- Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right (Gibney – Nature)
- The Fickleness of Scaling Laws (Morehead – Compound)
- Liberal AI (Sunstein – SSRN)
Econ:
- Innovation and Competition on a Rugged Technological Landscape (Callander et al. – AEJ: Microeconomics)
- Firm Data on AI (Yotzov, Barrero, Bloom et al. – NBER)
- Trends in Competition in the United States: What Does the Evidence Show? (Shapiro & Yurukoglu – Microeconomics)
- Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020 (Ma, Zhang & Zimmermann – NBER)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel