This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in September 2024. You can follow me on X (@ProfSchrepel) or LinkedIn (here) to be notified of similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review is also available on X (@NetworkLawRev) and LinkedIn (here).
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Antitrust:
- Memes and Myths of Antitrust (Richard N. Langlois – NLR)
- Antitrust and Digital Refusals to Deal (Herb Hovenkamp – NLR)
- Competition Law Without Policy (and Competition Policy Without Law) (Spencer Waller – NLR)
- Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation (Lieff)
- Antitrust and eMarkets (Herbert Hovenkamp – SSRN)
- Inside Ursula von der Leyen’s long breakup with Thierry Breton (Vinocur et al. – Politico)
- Insights from GDPR Application in Competition Law Proceedings (Giuseppe Colangelo – Bulletin)
- Antitrust Under Biden: Taking a Closer Look at the Numbers (Carroll et al. – Nat. Review)
- The Secret (Metrics) of DMA’s Success (Giuseppe Colangelo & Alba Ribera Martínez – SSRN)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Competition between AI Foundation Models: Dynamics & Policy Reco (v2) (Schrepel & Pentland)
- The Intelligence Age (Sam Altman)
- Explainable AI: Visualizing Attention in Transformers (Abby Morgan – Comet)
- AI, Society, and Democracy: Just Relax (Cochrane – Grumpy Economist)
- AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research (Protein Design and Wet Lab teams)
- The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (Mel Andrews)
- Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers? (Gemma Conroy – Nature)
Digital:
- Allison Stanger: Political Science Behind Large Tech Companies (Scaling Theory – Spotify, Apple, YouTube)
- Two dogmas of technology-neutral regulation (Marco Almada – SSRN)
- Why Acquired Is Your Boss’s Favorite Podcast (Adam Lashinsky – Esquire)
- Protected Democracy (Larry Lessig – Digitalist Papers)
Econ:
- The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI (Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin & David J. Deming – NBER)
- Patent Hunters (Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Katie Moon & Paula Suh – NBER)
- Behavioral Attenuation (Benjamin Enke, Thomas Graeber, Ryan Oprea & Jeffrey Yang – NBER)
- The American Economic Association Snubs Hayek (Skousen – WSJ)
- Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Regulation (Bombardini, Trebbi & Ben Zhang – NBER)
Other:
- Problem-solving matter (Krakauer & Kempes – Aeon)
Thibault Schrepel
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