This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in March 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:
- Decoding the AI Act: Implications for Competition Law and Market Dynamics (Schrepel – JCLE)
- Antitrust’s Forensic Tools (Hovenkamp – NLR)
- Latin Antitrust Chronicles: October 2024 – February 2025 (Cataldo, Ragazzo & Mattuizzo – NLR)
- Long-term Consumer Welfare (Allensworth – SSRN)
- Cary Coglianese on the Use of AI in Public Enforcement (Schrepel & Groza – SCA) 🎧
- Natalie Harsdorf on Computational Antitrust in Austria (Schrepel – SCA) 🎧
- Efficiency considerations in DMA procedures (Bueren & Zober – JAE)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Measuring the Openness of AI Foundation Models (Schrepel & Potts – ICTL)
- Will the EU AI Act Shape Global Regulation? (Almada – NLR)
- AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel (Vitalik Buterin)
- Microsoft’s Relationship With OpenAI Is Not Looking Good (Maxwell – Gizmodo)
- Promoting Access to Innovative AI (Fodouop – SSRN)
- Artificial Intelligence and Procedural Due Process (Garrett – SSRN)
- Why Copyright Is Not the Right Policy Tool to Deal with Generative AI (Mantegna – SSRN)
- Navigating AI conformity: A design framework to assess fairness, explainability, and performance (Moritz von Zahn et al.)
- Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed (Bi & Wooldridge) 🎥
- We Built Judge. AI. And You Should Buy It (Kieffaber et al. – SSRN)
Digital:
- Voss and Schrems team up to propose three-layered GDPR revision (Wold – Euractiv)
- New approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth (UK Gov)
- SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on the New Crypto Task Force (Alpher – Coindesk)
Econ:
- Eric Von Hippel: Freeing Innovation (Scaling Theory)
- U.S. Market Concentration and Import Competition (Amiti & Heise – RES)
- Decentralization in Organizations: A Revolution or a Mirage? (Reineke, Katila & Eisenhardt – AMA)
- Optimizing Economic Complexity (Stojkoski & Hidalgo)
- Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar (Martin & Steinmueller)
- Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future (Axtell & Farmer – AEA)
- The Titans Battling for Control of the Crypto Future (Angus Berwick – WSJ)
Other:
- X alignment
- The Doom Nexus (Niall Gerguson – Substack)
Thibault Schrepel
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