Winter 2023
The Network Law Review publishes four issues a year. Articles go online one by one and are gathered by season. This issue closed with 12 publications.
Contents
Newest first15 March 2023
Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems
Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine
While driving a car, you hear a large bang, the car no longer accelerates properly, and the engine makes loud noises. You are not an automobile mechanic and do not know how engines work, but you are aware of some basic facts, such as that breaking parts of the engine with a hammer will probably…
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9 March 2023
Competition law and privacy: extensive data acquisition as the “eye” of the problem
Traditionally, competition law and privacy have been seen as separate. GAFAM companies, however, have blurred the line between privacy and competition law regulation. The current EU-level approach to privacy infringements, as per the case of Asnef-Equifax, indicates that “any possible issues…
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3 March 2023
A Conversation with Vernon Smith on Complexity Theory, Adam Smith, Web3, and More
The following transcript has been lightly edited.
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28 February 2023
Reviving the Robinson-Patman Act
The Robinson-Patman Act was enacted in 1936 amid New Deal fervor against the power of chain stores, particularly the hegemonic Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (“A&P”). Among its provisions was a prohibition on price discrimination that impaired competition with any person, whether or not it…
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17 February 2023
Competition Is One Prompt Away
Counter-positioning is a business strategy in which a company positions itself in a way that its competitors are unwilling to replicate to avoid cannibalization. A well-known example of counter-positioning is Netflix’s policy not to charge late fees.
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15 February 2023
Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals
Over the past several years, we have witnessed a vigorous push to regulate the Big Tech companies, especially Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. In the European Union, the Digital Markets Act, a bold new regulatory regime, will soon come into force, overseen and enforced by the European…
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8 February 2023
Justice in a Vacuum?
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Robert Mahari and Tobin South
From the Palaeolithic era until the mid-1800s, tally sticks represented an international system for recording debts. Debtors and creditors would break a piece of wood or bone in half, and the unique fracture memorialized the debt.
27 January 2023
Tech Podcasts for Social Scientists
The number of lists documenting the best tech podcasts is almost infinite. This list is specifically designed for social scientists – lawyers, economists, political scientists, complexity theorists, etc. I hope it helps. Yours truly, Thibault Schrepel…
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19 January 2023
Dark Patterns Everything: An Update on a Regulatory Global Movement
Catalina Goanta and Cristiana Santos
In the past years, regulators around the world found a new focal point in addressing online information asymmetries. This focal point is dark patterns. As this inspired a widespread interest that brings together human-computer interaction, web measurement, data protection, consumer protection…
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10 January 2023
Big Tech and Web3
This short article serves as an introduction to Thibault Schrepel’s latest working paper, “The Complex Relationship Between Web2 Giants and Web3 Projects” (open-access)…
3 January 2023
The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2022
Network Law Review
As in previous years (see 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021), here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles posted on SSRN during the course of 2022.
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21 December 2022
Do First-Mover Advantages Last?
Gaze upon antitrust enforcement and regulatory efforts directed toward digital platforms, and you will likely notice a list of justifications in favor of a more interventionist approach.
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