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Competition policy as economists see it, in their own words. 77 publications, from 2020 to 2026.

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2026

  1. Not All Network Effects Are Red Flags: A Simple Screen for Digital Vertical Mergers

    Johannes Johnen and Shiva Shekhar

  2. Dominance in Motion: A practical R&D-intensity test for dynamic markets

    Jorge Padilla

  3. Introducing The Minerva Papers

    Jorge Padilla

  4. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Assessing the Draft EU Merger Guidelines

    Jorge Padilla

  5. A Farewell to Net Neutrality: Implications for Internet Access and E-Commerce

    Daniel F. Spulber

  6. Antitrust Antidote: April-June 2026

    Jeremy Kauffman, Jeremy Sandford, Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  7. Innovation on Rugged Technological Landscapes: Implications for Competition Policy

    Steven Callander, Nicolas Lambert and Niko Matouschek

  8. Antitrust Antidote: January-March 2026

    Jeremy Kauffman, Jeremy Sandford, Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  9. Introducing Dynamic Competition in the Middle East

    Jason Potts

2025

  1. Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2025

    Jeremy Sandford, Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  2. Understanding Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    William Lehr, Volker Stocker and Jason Whalley

  3. Return-to-Office Policies and AI Knowledge Sharing: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

    Elizabeth J. Durango-Cohen, Yidan Sun and Liad Wagman

  4. The Rise of Industrial Policy in Europe and the Search for Growth and Innovation: A Golden Opportunity for Competition Authorities

    Frédéric Jenny

  5. China and the Paradox of Protectionism?

    Richard N. Langlois

  6. Industrial Policy and Competitiveness: Non-Tariff Barriers and Incentives to Innovate

    Daniel F. Spulber

  7. A Return of Industrial Policies? Only a Partial and Dystopic One

    Giovanni Dosi

  8. Antitrust Antidote: June-September 2025

    Koren W. Wong-Ervin, Jeremy Sandford and Nathan Wilson

  9. Principal-Agent Dynamics and Digital (Platform) Economics in the Age of Agentic AI

    Volker Stocker and William Lehr

  10. Governing Hyperobjects: The New Economics of AI Regulation

    Jason Potts

  11. Artificial Intelligence and Data Policies: Regulatory Overlaps and Economic Tradeoffs

    Ginger Zhe Jin, Liad Wagman and Mengyi Zhong

  12. Special issue on “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI”

    Adrian Kuenzler, Thibault Schrepel and Volker Stocker

  13. How Employee Networks Drive Innovation, and How Remote Work Alters Both

    Michael Gibbs, Friederike Mengel and Christoph Siemroth

  14. The Counterintuitive Economics of Default Positions

    Yongmin Chen and Marius Schwartz

  15. Antitrust Antidote: March-June 2025

    Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  16. Towards Efficient Data Sharing in Platform Markets

    Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos and Marshall Van Alstyne

  17. A New Paradigm for Antitrust in the Digital Sector

    Diana L. Moss

  18. Dynamic Capabilities and EC Merger Control: A Difficult Match?

    Svend Albaek and Raphaël De Coninck

  19. Merger Enforcement in the High-Tech Economy: The Role for a Dynamic Capabilities Framework

    Richard J. Gilbert

  20. Lessons From Empirical Work on Market Dynamics

    Ariel Pakes

  21. The Growing Complexity of Digital Economies over the GenAI Waterfall: Challenges and Policy Implications

    Volker Stocker and William Lehr

  22. Dynamic Capabilities Analysis and Merger Control: Is A Long-Delayed Convergence Finally on The Way?

    Frédéric Jenny

  23. Antitrust Antidote: January-March 2025

    Jeremy Sandford and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  24. Rising Market Power: Evidence from Industry Studies

    Nathan H. Miller

2024

  1. Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2024

    Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  2. Big Tech Acquisitions And The Ghost Products

    Axel Gautier

  3. Antitrust Antidote: June-September 2024

    Jeremy Sandford and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  4. New Insights into the Evolution of Judicial Standards in U.S. Merger Cases

    John W. Mayo

  5. Memes and Myths of Antitrust

    Richard N. Langlois

  6. Antitrust Antidote: March-May 2024

    Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  7. The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising

    Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

  8. Digital Empires Reinforced? Generative AI Value Chain

    Ela Głowicka and Jan Málek

  9. AI Regulation and 6G: The Measurement Ecosystem Challenge

    William Lehr and Volker Stocker

  10. Antitrust Antidote: December 2023-February 2024

    Jeremy Sandford and Koren W. Wong-Ervin

  11. Artificial Intelligence and Market Power

    Paul Seabright

  12. Generative AI And Productivity: Challenges, Opportunities And The Role of Policy

    Flavio Calvino and Chiara Criscuolo

  13. Sources of Innovation in Generative AI

    Jason Potts

  14. Introduction to the symposium on Generative AI

    Thibault Schrepel and Volker Stocker

2023

  1. Future Markets and the Social Discount Rate: A New Approach to Dynamic Competition Policy

    Jason Potts

  2. Deglobalisation and competition policy: the challenge to European economic integration

    Luc Soete and Sven Van Kerckhoven

  3. Some Background to Complexity Economics

    W. Brian Arthur

  4. Competition Policy Enforcement in a Dynamic World

    Pierre Régibeau

  5. Regulation and Competition in Digital Ecosystems: Some Missing Pieces

    Eliana Garces

  6. Market Definition And Market Power Evaluation In Dynamic Industries

    Andrea Pezzoli

  7. Ecosystems and Managers

    Richard N. Langlois

  8. A Rising Trend in Market Concentration: Myth or Reality?

    Benoît Durand and Apolline Jaoui

  9. Dynamic Competition, Digital Ecosystems, and Competition Policy

    Wolfgang Kerber

  10. Big Tech Acquisitions and Innovation Incentives

    Raphaël De Coninck and Christoph von Muellern

  11. Big-Tech Acquisitions and Venture Capital Funding for Start-ups

    Johannes M. Bauer and Tiago S. Prado

  12. The UK Facebook/Giphy Case: Taking Dynamic Competition Seriously

    Mike Walker

  13. Frameworks for Dynamic Competition

    Gabriele Corbetta and Joe Perkins

  14. Dynamic Competition, Organizational Capabilities, and M&A: A Short Synopsis

    David J. Teece

  15. The Limits of Antitrust Remedies: Brunswick v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat for the FTC

    James C. Cooper and Bruce H. Kobayashi

  16. Looking at More Evidence in Antitrust

    Joseph Farrell

  17. Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems

    Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine

  18. Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals

    Carl Shapiro

2022

  1. Near-Decomposability as A Regenerative Process in Complex Social Phenomena

    Anamaria Berea

  2. How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina

    Daniel F. Spulber

  3. Thomas W. Hazlett: The FTC’s Rendition of the “Cellophane Fallacy”

    Thomas W. Hazlett

  4. How to make sensible merger policies?

    Dennis W. Carlton

  5. Economics and the Search for Life

    Anamaria Berea

  6. Is the West Giving Away the Game?

    Jonathan M. Barnett and David J. Teece

  7. A Riff and a Half on the Delineation of Relevant Markets in Antitrust Cases

    Lawrence J. White

  8. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act

    Richard J. Gilbert

2021

  1. Practical approaches to data in competition policy

    Diane Coyle

  2. Who Owns My Data?

    Peter G. Klein

  3. It’s Not Easy Being a Schumpeterian

    Richard N. Langlois

2020

  1. Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Frédéric Jenny

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