Thibault SchrepelPublished 1 October 2026
Reading suggestions, September 2026
Academic papers and articles Thibault Schrepel enjoyed reading in September 2026. The monthly readings feed into The Competition System, his newsletter on digital competition.
Article 102 guidelinesKiller acquisitionsMonopoly causationRecursive self-improvementThe university after AI
From The Competition System
Antitrust
- Keeper Acquisitions: What Big Tech Keeps When It BuysÜnekbas, NLR
- Dominance in Motion: A practical R&D-intensity test for dynamic marketsPadilla, NLR
- Monopoly CausationHovenkamp, SSRN
- Digital (Killer?) AcquisitionsEderer, Seibel & Simcoe, NBER
- Using Policy Functions to Estimate Merger ImpactsGowrisankaran, Bruegge & Gross, NBER
- The Next Five Years of Computational AntitrustSchrepel, CPI
- What 30 Antitrust Agencies Actually Do With AIVideoComputational Antitrust
AI
- Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agentsMiao et al., Nature
- The Economics of Recursive Self-ImprovementCunningham et al., arXiv
- The Rise and Fall of Agent CivilizationsDwarkesh Patel
- An empirical critique of the DSA Transparency DatabaseLeijten, ICTL
- Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going RogueSibarium, WF
Academia
- The Scholar’s Telescope: AI and the Public Purpose of Legal ScholarshipMcGinnis, SSRN
- The University after AIPotts, SSRN
- Why AI Detection Fails for Academic IntegrityKarr et al., arXiv
Others
- Xavier Gabaix on The Shape of Big ThingsPodcastSchrepel, Scaling Theory
Earlier months
All months- August 2026The EU digital rulebook, Superior bargaining power, Breakups
- July 2026The as-efficient competitor test, Draft EU merger guidelines, AI agent collusion
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