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Reading suggestions – January 2026

30 January 2026Thibault Schrepel

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include market power and competition regimes, the limits of AI scaling, the impact of large language models on scientific production, price discrimination, and broader questions of political and economic power.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

12 December 2025

Understanding Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

EU Digital Sovereignty has emerged as a key policy topic amid growing geopolitical tensions fuelled by an AI arms race...

8 December 2025

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

We develop a game-theoretic model to analyze optimal workplace arrangements in AI-enhanced teams where knowledge sharing is subject to location-dependent...

5 December 2025

European Digital Sovereignty: From Naïveté to Sustainability?

Two decades of hyperactive EU digital rule-making have not delivered “digital sovereignty,” but instead exposed a strategic naïveté: Brussels built...

3 December 2025

Revisiting Antitrust in the Age of Great-Powers Competition

US antitrust law has traditionally paid little attention to global competitiveness and industrial policy objectives. This reflects a commitment to...

2 December 2025

Reading suggestions – November 2025

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include post-profit antitrust, anticompetitive directors, the dynamic competition approach, Moore's Law, GenAI...

1 December 2025

EU Digital Regulation as Industry Shaping Policy: The DSA, Brussels Effect, and Global Competitiveness

The European Union’s recent wave of digital regulations, especially the Digital Services Act (DSA), highlights a strategic use of law...

26 November 2025

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

This paper argues that the unintended and unanticipated costs of globalization revealed during the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020...

24 November 2025

SERIES

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By Daniel Crane

SPECIAL GUESTS

Academics Only

17 February 2020
Daniel Crane (guest article): Democracy and Monopoly in Governments, Markets, and Firms
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles authored by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
12 May 2025
Thomas A. Lambert: “Neo-Brandeisianism: A Policy at War With Itself”
“Neo-Brandeisian” scholars contend that prevailing antitrust law fails to protect democratic values. They propose (1) to replace antitrust’s consumer welfare...
21 November 2022
Ioannis Lianos: “Mind The (Institutional) Gap: Digital Economy, Competition Law and The Toolkit Approach”
Far from its depiction as a well-defined and linear techno-social phenomenon that developed incrementally over the last three decades following...
18 October 2021
Peter G. Klein: “Who Owns My Data?“
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Peter G. Klein, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor...
27 October 2022
Thomas W. Hazlett: The FTC’s Rendition of the “Cellophane Fallacy”
In the pending case of FTC v. Facebook, the Government alleges price increases for the “free” service. In this zero-price...
31 July 2021
Alexandre de Streel (guest article): “Why Legislators Want to Move Fast and Break Things in the Cyberspace?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Alexandre de Streel, Professor of digital law at...
24 September 2024
Richard N. Langlois: “Memes and Myths of Antitrust”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Richard N. Langlois, Professor...
6 June 2022
Renato Nazzini: “Mergers in the Digital Economy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Renato Nazzini, Professor of Law at King’s...
7 November 2023
Marina Lao: “FTC Rulemaking on Noncompetes”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Marina Lao, Edward S....
15 September 2022
Dennis W. Carlton: “How to make sensible merger policies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Economics Emeritus...
2 November 2021
Diane Coyle: “Practical approaches to data in competition policy”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at...
17 May 2021
George L. Priest (guest article): “What to do about the Big Tech Monopolies?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law...
15 June 2022
Lawrence J. White: “A Riff and a Half on the Delineation of Relevant Markets in Antitrust Cases”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Lawrence J. White, Robert Kavesh Professor of...
20 August 2020
Michael Carrier (guest article): “Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases?”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
9 March 2020
William Kovacic (guest article): "Roads Not Taken: The Federal Trade Commission and Google"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust...
6 September 2023
Anu Bradford: “What is at Stake if Antitrust Regulation Fails?”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor...
30 September 2020
Nicolas Petit (guest article): “Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
17 December 2020
Joshua D. Wright & Alexander Krzepicki (guest article): “Rethinking Foreclosure Analysis in Antitrust Law: From Standard Stations to Google”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
6 April 2020
Eleanor Fox (guest article): "POWER: Trust and Distrust"
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
2 May 2022
Thomas B. Nachbar: “An America Fit for the Digital Age?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor of Law at the...
25 March 2024
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson: “The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor...
23 January 2021
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (guest article): “Be Careful What You Wish For”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
18 June 2025
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...
15 December 2022
Alan J. Meese: “The Constitutional Moment That Wasn’t: 1912-1914 and the Meaning of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Alan J. Meese, Ball Professor...
15 March 2023
Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine: “Adjusting to Change in Complex Systems”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics...
26 August 2022
Jonathan B. Baker: “A Competitive Process Goal Won’t Strengthen Antitrust”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan B. Baker, Research Professor of Law...
30 August 2023
Luc Soete and Sven Van Kerckhoven: “Deglobalisation and competition policy: the challenge to European economic integration”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Luc Soete, Dean of...
15 August 2022
Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke: “The Darker Sides of Digital Platform Innovation”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of...
15 February 2023
Carl Shapiro: “Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Carl Shapiro, Professor at...
2 November 2023
Vincent Martenet: “Separation of Powers and Antitrust”
The separation of powers principle and antitrust both relate to power and, notably, deal with the concentration of power. However,...
27 October 2025
An effects-based approach to the DMA?
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) uses per se prohibitions to regulate “gatekeepers,” prioritising rapid enforcement over case-specific effects analysis....
22 July 2025
How Employee Networks Drive Innovation, and How Remote Work Alters Both
Our research examines how employee collaboration networks within companies affect the quality of innovation, using data from over 28,000 employees...
8 February 2021
A. Douglas Melamed (guest article): “Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors under Section 2 of the Sherman Act”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
6 July 2020
Frédéric Jenny (guest article): “Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
2 April 2021
Douglas H. Ginsburg & Jacob Philipoom (guest article): “A Certain Harm Overlooked: The Case of Nascent Competitors Revisited”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
16 September 2021
Richard N. Langlois: “It’s Not Easy Being a Schumpeterian”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard N. Langlois, Professor of Economics at the...
8 February 2022
Richard Epstein: “The Unwise Extension of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at...
16 November 2020
Alison Jones (guest article): “Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
11 September 2023
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz: “A Bad Merger of Process and Substance: Changing the Merger Guidelines and Premerger Review Form”
On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced proposed changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (“HSR Act”) premerger notification form....
16 June 2020
Scott Hemphill (guest article): “Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors”
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by several of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars...
20 October 2020
Mark A. Lemley & Andrew McCreary (guest article): How Venture Capital’s “Exit Strategy” Drives Tech Industry Concentration
Dear readers, As previously announced, I am incredibly happy and honored to publish guest articles written by the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars every month...
9 March 2021
Michal Gal (guest article): “Do our Privacy Laws Strengthen the Already Strong?”
Dear readers, In 2020, I started publishing monthly guest articles written by some of the world’s most renowned antitrust scholars. The series continues in 2021....
14 December 2023
Jason Potts: “Future Markets and the Social Discount Rate: A New Approach to Dynamic Competition Policy”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jason Potts, Distinguished Professor...
21 July 2022
Jonathan M. Barnett and David J. Teece: “Is the West Giving Away the Game?”
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan M. Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor...
23 August 2021
Randal C. Picker: “Security Competition and App Stores”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Randal C. Picker, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service...
3 November 2022
Daniel F. Spulber: “How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina”
"How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina", this month's guest contribution by Daniel F. Spulber, Professor of International...
27 January 2022
Richard J. Gilbert: “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act”
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that thisbe month’s guest article is authored by Richard J. Gilbert, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
21 October 2024
Axel Gautier: “Big Tech Acquisitions And The Ghost Products”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Axel Gautier, Professor at...
5 June 2023
The Limits of Antitrust Remedies: Brunswick v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat for the FTC
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by James C. Cooper, Professor...
4 April 2024
Herbert Hovenkamp: “Antitrust Market Definition: the Hypothetical Monopolist and Brown Shoe”
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Herbert Hovenkamp, James B. Dinan...