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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in April 2021. As I tend to favor the active sharing of open-source publications, you can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- A Certain Harm Overlooked: The Case of Nascent Competitors Revisited (Ginsburg & Philipoom — Concurrentialiste)
- Can Computational Antitrust Succeed? (Daryl Lim — Stanford Computational Antitrust)
- Episode 2: Can Computational Antitrust Succeed? (Daryl Lim — Apple Podcasts) 🎧
- Time for a New Antitrust Era: Refocusing Antitrust Law (Mahari, Lera & Pentland —Stanford Computational Antitrust)
- Competition Policy is not a Stopgap! (Luc Peeperkorn — JECLAP)
- A Web of Paradoxes: Empirical Evidence on Online Platform Users (Pinar Akman — SSRN)
- Antitrust and Privacy Are on a Collision Course (Gilad Edelman — Wired)
- Innovation Under Section 2 of the Sherman Act (Richard Gilbert & A. Douglas Melamed — SSRN)
- Market Power Parasites: Abusing the Power of Digital Intermediaries to Harm Competition (Gal & Shchory)
- Remedies in EU Merger Control – An Essential Guide (Simon Vande Walle — SSRN)
- Seminar Series with Robert Frank: Winner-Take-All Markets (Stanford Digital Economy Lab — Robert Frank) 🎥
- VIEW 3 China’s Alibaba hit with record $2.75 bln antitrust fine (Reuters)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Accelerating Blockchain Adoption (Blockdata)
- Aiming for truth, fairness, and equity in your company’s use of AI (Elisa Jillson — Federal Trade Commission)
- Ghost in the Shell: Will AI Ever Be Conscious? (Eric James Beyer – Interesting Engineering)
- China using Bitcoin as ‘financial weapon’ against United States (Samuel Haig — Cointelegraph)
- Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference (Cris Moore – Complexity Podcast) 🎧
- Stop talking about AI and ethics. It’s time to talk about power (Karen Hao — MIT Technology Review)
- Cryptocurrency Concerns vs Regulations in Europe (CoinShares)
- ECB Publishes the Results of The Public Consultation On A Digital Euro (ECB)
- The Last Days of Satoshi: What Happened When Bitcoin’s Creator Disappeared (Pete Rizzo – Bitcoin Magazine)
- Error-riddled data sets are warping our sense of how good AI really is (Karen Hao — MIT Technology Review)
- SEC loses a battle to win the war? Ripple dissociates from pumping XRP (Andrew Singer — Cointelegraph)
- The NFT Craze Is Helping Nigerian Artists Go Global (Sandali Handagama — Coindesk)
- Fintech Sandboxes and Regulatory Interoperability (Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis — SLS Blogs)
- We first need to understand how the brain works if we want true AI (Will Douglas Heaven — MIT Technology Review)
Big Tech:
- Amazon’s private labels (Benedict Evans)
- My Dream of the Great Unbundling (Paul Ford — Wired)
- Facebook v Apple: The ad tracking row heats up (Jane Wakefield – BBC News)
- A Simple Way to Measure Tipping in Digital Markets (Nicolas Petit & Natalia Moreno Belloso – ProMarket)
Econ:
- AEJ Best Paper Awards (American Economic Association)
- The Complexity Economics Revolution (J. Doyne Farmer — Complexity) 🎧
- A Simple Way to Measure Tipping in Digital Markets (Nicolas Petit & Natalia Moreno Belloso)
Other:
- Ambitious Plans To Boost UK Fintech And Financial Services Set Out By Chancellor (HM Treasury — Gov.UK)
- Understanding Law and the Rule of Law: A Plea to Augment CS Curricula (Mireille Hildebrandt — ACM Communications)
- Breaking the Privacy Gridlock: Remedies (Dempsey, Hoofnagle, Rubinstein & Strandburg — Berkeley & NYU)
- The Healing Power of JavaScript (Craig Mod — Wired)
Books (only those I enjoyed this month):
- Richard R. Nelson & Sidney G. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (Harvard, 1985)
- Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Crown, 2014)
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Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
