This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in July 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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The Competition System:
Here is what I published this month in The Competition System, where these monthly readings feed into my work:
- The quiet retirement of the as-efficient competitor (C-738/22 P, Google Android)
- The paperwork of independence (a world on digital sovereignty)
- What the Alphabet specification decisions quietly change
- The rule the Court refused to write (DMA.100075, Google)
Antitrust:
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Assessing the Draft EU Merger Guidelines (Padilla – NLR)
- A Farewell to Net Neutrality: Implications for Internet Access and E-Commerce (Spulber – NLR)
- A Large-Scale Evaluation of Merger Simulations (Bhattacharya et al. – NBER)
- Data Neutrality, Data Supply, and Market Competition (Fang & Kim – NBER)
- Do managerial incentives facilitate anti-competitive behavior? (Giebel & Rösner – JEBO)
- On the Fragility of AI Agent Collusion (Keppo et al. – arXiv)
- Competition Agencies Compute. The Law Still Assumes They Read. (Schrepel – Kluwer)
- Google mega-fine to slash taxpayers’ payments to Brussels (Politico)
AI:
- Statistically Undetectable Backdoors in Deep Neural Networks (Bogdanov, Rosen & Vafa – arXiv)
- A global workspace in language models (Anthropic – X)
- Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind (Basu – Nature)
- Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers (The Economist)
- Nvidia, Other Tech Giants Launch AI Defense Alliance Following OpenAI Hacking Incident (WSJ)
- Europe Will Never Be an AI Superpower (Benner & Hensing – FP)
Econ:
- Creative accumulation and creative destruction in the economy (McKelvey & Ebersberger – JEE)
- Open user innovation, producer innovation and industrial dynamics (Almudi et al. – Research Policy)
- ‘Systems of use’: A lens to more deeply study user innovation (von Hippel – Research Policy)
- Understanding innovation in coopetitive contexts: A meta-analysis (Li, He & Palmer – Technovation)
- Do digital M&As drive higher acquisition premiums? (Huang et al. – Technovation)
- Large-SME collaboration in open innovation ecosystems (Yoon & Oh – Journal of Open Innovation)
- A Functional Analysis of Prediction Market Regulation (Oudin – SSRN)
- Europe chose insurance. America chose growth. (Lustig – The Two Cents)
Others:
- Peter Howitt on Creative Destruction in the Age of AI (Schrepel – Scaling Theory) 🎧 → Also on Spotify and Apple