This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in January 2025. You can follow me on X (@ProfSchrepel), LinkedIn (here) or BlueSky (here) to be notified of similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review is also available on X (@NetworkLawRev), BlueSky (here), and LinkedIn (here).
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Antitrust:
- The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2024 (Network Law Review)
- Competition between AI Foundation Models: Dynamics and Policy (Schrepel & Pentland – ICC) final
- Mahmoud Momtaz on Computational Antitrust in Egypt (Stanford Computational Antitrust) 🎥
- Merger and Entry With Learning (Yves Guéron & Jihong Lee – JIE)
- Horizontal acquisitions of growth potential (Fan Xia & Gordon Walker – ICC)
- Industrial organization and The Rise of Market Power (Nathan H. Miller – IJIO)
- A Framework for Assessing the Competitiveness of AI Partnerships (Schrepel – NLR)
Artificial Inteligence:
- AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (Shumailov et al. – Nature)
- Reasoning with o1 (Colin Jarvis – DeepLearning.AI)
- The “AI Existential Risk” Industrial Complex (Nirit Weiss-Blatt – Substack)
- Real-world AI use cases in public sector (Nortal)
- The EU AI Act in a Global Perspective (Marco Almada – SSRN)
- DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking (Anthony Ha – Techcrunch)
- DeepSeek FAQ (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework (Ludwig et al. – NBER)
- Mission Impossible? AI, Space Debris, and Space Sustainability (Bratu – SSRN)
- The Co-Evolution Dilemma and the AI Paradox (Nazli Choucri – SSRN)
Digital:
- EU reassesses tech probes into Apple, Google and Meta (Espinoza & Foy – FT)
- Big Tech’s New Frenemy Era Is Here (Tim Higgins – WSJ)
- Is Donald Trump’s Meme Coin Legal? (Sander Lutz – Decrypt)
- Europe Pushes for Sweeping Regulatory Reform to Compete With U.S., China (Hancock – WSJ)
Econ:
- New Economics Is Coming For You (Eric Beinhocker – Scaling Theory) 🎧
- Perspectives on Industrial Policy (TOTM)
- Explaining institutional technology (Potts et al. – EER)
- Econ Graphs
- d/acc: one year later (Vitalik Buterin)
- Will DOGE and Musk Make a Difference? (Russ Roberts & Michael Munger – Econtalk)
- The Short Case for Nvidia Stock (Jeffrey Emanuel)
- The Role of Digital Platforms in Shaping Tech Venture Innovation (Ginger Zhe Ji et al. – NBER)
Other:
- 2025 Predictions (Chamath, Jason Friedberg & Baker – All In) 🎧
- Harmonization…What Else? The Role for International Regulatory Agreements (Maggi & Mrázová – NBER)
- How to Use Exercise to Improve Your Brain’s Health, Longevity & Performance (Andrew Huberman) 🎧
- What Makes a Good Review Article? Empirical Evidence (Krlev et al. – AMA)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
