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Please find below the articles that I enjoyed reading in May 2020. I don’t recall having read so many good ones in a single month. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential.
Antitrust:
- Blockchain Code as Antitrust (Thibault Schrepel & Vitalik Buterin)
- Do Competition Lawyers Harm Welfare? (Richard Whish)
- Updating “market definition” (Nicolas Petit & Thibault Schrepel)
- What Every Antitrust Lawyer Needs to Know About Blockchain (Douglas H. Ginsburg & Thibault Schrepel)
- Anticompetitive Effects in EU Competition Law (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo)
- Against the vertical discrimination presumption (Geoffrey Manne)
- The Competitive Effects of the GDPR (Michal S Gal & Oshrit Aviv)
- Does Antitrust Have Digital Blind Spots? (John M. Yun)
- The European and U.S. Approaches to Antitrust and Tech (Maria Coppola & Renato Nazzini)
- Privacy and Data Protection (Bill Kovacic & Douglas H. Ginsburg)
- Politics Has No Place in Antitrust Enforcement, Left or Right (Sam Bowman)
- Competition Law Enforcement and the COVID-19 Crisis: Business As (Un)usual ? (Frédéric Jenny)
- A discussion between Doug Melamed & Josh Wright (GAI)
- Navigating the Platform Age: the ‘More Regulatory Approach’ (Marco Cappai & Giuseppe Colangelo)
- Investigation into the State of Competition in the Digital Market Place (Randy Picker)
- Competition Laws and Corporate Innovation (Levine, Lin, Wei & Xie)
- The Case Against the New Populist Antitrust Movement (Dorsey, Manne, Rybnicek, Stout & Wright)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- The first case of “blockchain antitrust”: Gallagher v. Bitcointalk.org (Thibault Schrepel)
- Blockchains Will Discourage Monopolies, Not Create Them (Paddy Baker)
- European Commission planning tender for blockchain in international trade (Ledger Insights)
- Congress Has Now Introduced 32 Crypto And Blockchain Bills (Jason Brett)
- Telegram abandons $1.7 billion crypto project (Robert Stevens)
- Craig Wright vs. Crypto: The current state of his 5 libel lawsuits (Tim Copeland)
- Blockchains and Antitrust Laws Share the Same Objective, Says Vitalik Buterin (Mohammad Musharraf)
Big Tech:
- The Rise of Superstar Firms and the Fall of the Labor Share (David Autor)
- What Does It Mean to “Have a Conversation” about a New Technology? (Adam Thierer)
- Challenges in Digital Technology Then and Now (Jonathan Zittrain & Brad Smith)
- The COVID-19 Impact on App Popularity (Katie Jones)
- How the Pandemic Is Pushing Blockchain Forward (Remko van Hoek & Mary Lacity)
Econ:
- Economic Freedom and the Economic Consequences of the 1918 Pandemic (Jamie Bologna Pavlik & Vincent Geloso)
- Dithering and Open Versus Free (Ben Thompson)
- The smart contract revolution: a solution for the holdup problem? (Olivier Meier & Aurélie Sannajust)
- Zoom is Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines (Iman Ghosh)
- Oliver E. Williamson: A Personal Appreciation (Scott E. Masten)
OECD:
- Co-operation between competitors in the time of COVID-19
- Merger control in the time of COVID-19
- Exploitative pricing in the time of COVID-19
- COVID-19: Competition policy actions for governments and competition authorities
- Roundtable on Conglomerate Effects of Mergers – Background Note
- Consumer Data Rights and Competition – Background note
- Start-ups, Killer Acquisitions and Merger Control – Background Note
Other:
- Revolt of the Public (Martin Gurri & Russ Roberts)
- Coronavirus Will End the Golden Age for College Towns (Noah Smith)
- Vampires, Life Choices, and Transformation (L.A. Paul & Russ Roberts)
- The European Commission and the Revolving Door (Simon Luechinger & Christoph Moser)
- Does Public Mood Influence the European Commission? (Arthur Dyevre & Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung)
- The Crisis on Campus Is Here To Stay (Tyler Cowen)
- The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a crisis in the UK universities (Peter Dolton)
- Human Rights and Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights)
- Yada Yada Law School (Elaine Benes?)
- Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat? (Jeffrey Brainard)
- … and…. The Last Dance!
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
