Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include the economics of online default positions, what ant colonies can teach AI governance, how to run an LLM on your laptop, how AI is eating the Internet, the philosophy behind the big tech companies, robot regulators, measures of social media network effects, Perfect Days, and more.

ANTITRUST

DIGITAL LAW

COMPLEXITY SCIENCE

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Computational Antitrust: Evidence From 25 Antitrust Agencies

This paper explores patterns from the Stanford Computational Antitrust project’s fourth annual report, which includes contributions from 25 agencies worldwide....

Antitrust Antidote: March-June 2025

There were a number of decisions from March through June 2025 including: (1) a Ninth Circuit win by Microsoft and...

Towards Efficient Data Sharing in Platform Markets

Platforms collect valuable data that they do not share. Welfare then suffers as information asymmetry produces market failures. Current proposals...

On Simple Competition Policy

In this article, Keith N. Hylton challenges the idea that simplicity in competition policy can be achieved through rigid statutory...

Harnessing the transformative benefits of AI to maximize competition, innovation and competitiveness

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) has transformative economic potential across all sectors. This article explores how to harness AI’s potential while maintaining...

Antitrust In the Digital Era: A Contextual and Fact-Based Approach

European antitrust policy, designed for the industrial era, is inadequate for digital markets driven by innovation and differentiation. Against this...

Brazilian Merger Policy in Digital Markets: What Can We Expect in 2025?

This article analyzes Brazil's approach to digital market mergers, examining 2024 Ministry of Finance proposals to reform competition policy. Despite...

Ecosystems in Competition Law: A U.S. Perspective

Christopher S. Yoo argues that ecosystem-based theories have had limited impact on U.S. antitrust law due to conceptual vagueness and...

A New Paradigm for Antitrust in the Digital Sector

This article examines why traditional antitrust approaches fail to address digital market power effectively. Analyzing U.S. enforcement data from 1995-2023,...

EU Competition Law

By Makis Komninos

TECH MONOPOLY

BY HERBERT HOVENKAMP

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Crane's Cartel

By Daniel Crane

DigiConsumers

By Catalina Goanta

Antitrust Antidote

By Koren W. Wong-Ervin

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