Winter 2025
The Network Law Review publishes four issues a year. Articles go online one by one and are gathered by season. This issue closed with 9 publications.
Contents
Newest first19 March 2025
Latin Antitrust Chronicles: October 2024 – February 2025
Bruna Cataldo, Carlos Ragazzo and Marcela Mattiuzzo
This overview highlights the Brazilian competition authority’s investigations into issues related to human resources– CADE launched two new investigations in late 2024– as well as some of the key takeaways from the OECD’s Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum–which covered fintech and open…
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11 March 2025
Antitrust’s Forensic Tools
Most areas of law enforcement require investigative tools to provide evidence of violations and harm. Antitrust law’s single-minded focus on prices, output, and innovation explains its selection of economic tools.
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5 March 2025
Will the EU AI Act Shape Global Regulation?
The European Union’s AI Act is one of the first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence technologies. Given that previous European digital regulations, such as the GDPR, have influenced laws all over the world, can we expect to see the AI Act as a global standard?
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25 February 2025
The Vestager Years: A Data-Driven Assessment
Teresa Ribera assumed the role of EU Commissioner for Competition just a couple of weeks ago on December 1, 2024. As a new chapter in EU competition law begins, Janneke Parrish and I present an empirical analysis of Margrethe Vestager’s two mandates.
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13 February 2025
Rising Market Power: Evidence from Industry Studies
As an economist who does research in industrial organization (IO)—a field defined in part by its focus on market power—the emergence of evidence pointing to significant increases in market power among firms in the United States has been one of the more striking recent developments in the economics…
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3 February 2025
The Need for an Innovation Principle in Regulatory Impact Assessment
Many of Europe’s economies are hampered by a waning number of innovations, which in part is attributable to the European financial system’s aversion to funding innovative enterprises and initiatives. Specifically, Europe’s innovation finance ecosystem lacks scale, plurality, and risk appetite.
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13 January 2025
A Framework for Assessing the Competitiveness of AI Partnerships
The year 2024 marked a pivotal moment as antitrust agencies accelerated their efforts in generative AI (see our database). AI partnerships have drawn significant attention in the space, with the CMA, DOJ, European Commission, and other agencies launching investigations and issuing their first…
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2 January 2025
The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2024
Network Law Review
As in previous years (see 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023), here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles posted on SSRN during 2024.
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27 December 2024
Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2024
Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin
There were a number of decisions from October-December 2024, including: Given the incoming Trump Administration and the possibility that the 2023 Merger Guidelines will be revised (and perhaps significantly), it is particularly noteworthy that several courts have now relied on the Biden…
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