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Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of February 2020. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. There’s more than usual. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential.
Antitrust:
- Democracy And Monopoly In Governments, Markets, And Firms (Daniel A. Crane)
- The Fundamental Unimportance of Algorithmic Collusion for Antitrust Law (Thibault Schrepel)
- Antitrust Law and Its Critics (A. Douglas Melamed)
- The Limits of Antitrust in the 21st Century (Thomas A. Lambert)
- The Subject Of “Predatory Innovation” In The Google Hearing (T-621/17) (Thibault Schrepel)
- Discrimination and Self-favoring in the Digital Economy (Christian Bergqvist)
- Competing through keyword advertising (Giuseppe Colangelo)
- Google case: Report for the hearing (T-612/17)
- Normative Goals in Merger Control: Why Merger Control Should Not Attempt to Achieve ‘Better’ Outcomes than Competition (Stefan Thomas)
- European Court of Justice Paroxetine Ruling Provides Guidance on Patent Settlement Agreements (Jan Blockx)
- Paroxetine: The EU Court of Justice Rules on Pay-For-Delay Settlements for the First Time (Maria José Schmidt-Kessen)
- Europe under siege — from within (Christian Oliver, Simon Van Dorpe & Giorgio Leali)
- (Disruptive) Innovation (CPI)
- Data, Data Everywhere… (CPI)
- EU vs. US approaches to antitrust and innovation (Jan Rybnicek)
- FTC to Examine Past Acquisitions by Large Technology Companies
- The Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines Are an Important Step for the Economic Analysis of Mergers (Herbert Hovenkamp)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- The “Theory Of Granularity” In Videos (Thibault Schrepel)
- Video #3: What Is The Theory Of Granularity? (Thibault Schrepel)
- Video #4: A Path For Antitrust In Blockchain Ecosystems (Thibault Schrepel)
- Launching Aragon Court
- Tim Draper puts $1M into the Aragon blockchain project to create digital courts (Mike Butcher)
- US Judge Dismisses Bitcoin Cash ‘Hijack’ Lawsuit Against Bitmain, Kraken (Paddy Baker)
- Case claiming antitrust manipulation of Bitcoin Cash network falls short, for now (Alison Frankel)
- Why Decentralization Matters (Chris Dixon)
- What AI still can’t do (Brian Bergstein)
- First Analysis of The EU Whitepaper On AI (Virginia Dignum, Catelijne Muller & Andreas Theodorou)
- Personal Tokens & Social Reputation (Simon de la Rouviere)
- AI, Copyright & Fair Use: Avoiding the Artificial in Intelligence & Maintaining our Humanity (Neil Turkewitz)
- Riksbank develops an e-krona in a test environment
- The future of blockchain: My long-read Q&A with Paul Vigna (James Pethokoukis)
- Could a Digital Dollar Compete on Privacy? Fed Chairman Powell Hints It Might (Benjamin Powers & Marc Hochstein)
- The Diffusion of the Sandbox Approach to Disruptive Innovation and Its Limitations (Chang-hsien Tsai, Ching-Fu Lin & Han-Wei Liu)
- Will You Need a Crypto Wallet? Governments Are Banking on It (Victor Zhang)
- Identity Technologies: A Transaction Cost Approach (Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson & Jason Potts)
- China Has Many Strategic Reasons to Invest in Blockchain (Byrne Hobart)
- This Technique Uses AI to Fool Other AIs (Will Knight)
- Blockchain and Investment: An Austrian Approach (Darcy W E Allen, Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson & Jason Potts)
- Blockchain in global supply chains and cross border trade (Yanling Chang, Eleftherios Iakovou & Weidong Shi)
Big Tech:
- First, Do No Harm (Ben Thompson)
- The Rise of Content Cartels (Evelyn Douek)
- Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones
- To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law (Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield & Scott Duke Kominers)
- We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law (David Rotman)
Econ:
- Does GDPR even boost privacy? (Tyler Cowen)
- Chronology of economics since World War II (Beatrice Cherrier)
- The Dominance of U.S. Companies in Global Markets (Jenna Ross)
- Economic Report of the President
- What Can the Stock Market Tell Us About the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger? (Alec Stapp)
- The Economic Consequences of Data Privacy Regulation: Empirical Evidence from GDPR (Guy Aridor, Yeon-Koo Che, William Nelson & Tobias Salz)
- Fair Learning (Mark A. Lemley & Bryan Casey)
- Static and Dynamic Effects of Mergers (Eric Fruits, Justin Hurwitz, Geoffrey A. Manne, Julian Morris & Alec Stapp)
- Mergers in the Digital Economy (Axel Gautier & Joe Lamesch)
- Connecting Vertical Merger Guidelines to Sound Economics (Wright, Ginsburg, Lipsky & Yun)
- Noncompete Clauses Used in Employment Contracts (Camila Ringeling, Joshua D. Wright, Douglas H. Ginsburg, John M. Yun & Tad Lipsky)
- Lessons from Tesla’s Approach to Innovation (Nathan Furr & Jeff Dyer)
Other:
- The evolution of trust (game) (Nicky Case)
- FRAND Licensing Levels under EU Law (Jean-Sébastien Borghetti, Igor Nikolic & Nicolas Petit)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
