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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in August 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:
- Security Competition and App Stores (Randal C. Picker — Concurrentialiste)
- I see Something You Don’t See: A Computational Analysis of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act (Fabiana Di Porto, Tatjana Grote, Gabriele Volpi & Riccardo Invernizzi — Computational Antitrust)
Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence:
- Going for Broke in Cryptoland (David Segal — The New York Times)
- Blockchain Companies Invested in by Top 100 Banks (Sam Wouters — BlockData)
- The Cryptocurrency Surveillance Provision Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is a Disaster for Digital Privacy (Reitman — EFF)
- How cryptocurrency became a powerful force in Washington (Frankel, Stein, Alemany & Shaban — The Washington Post)
- Crypto-Corns? Unicorn Numbers Explode As Venture Investment Surges In Crypto (Chris Metinko — CrunchBase)
- Is Natural Language Processing Ready to Take on Legal Hearings? (Catalin Voss and Jenny Hong — Stanford HAAI)
Big Tech:
- You Can’t Be Tough On Big Tech While Killing Off Alternatives To It (Evan Greer & Lia Holland — TechDirt)
- The End Of Ownership: How Big Companies Are Trying To Turn Everyone Into Renters (Mike Masnik — TechDirt)
Econ:
- Evolution of the Digital Economy: A Research Program for Evolutionary Economics (Jason Potts — SSRN)
- Agility Over Stability: China’s Great Reversal in Regulating the Platform Economy (Angela Huyue Zhang — SSRN)
- On the Economic Design of Stablecoins (Christian Catalini & Alonso de Gortari — SSRN)
- The Scope and Limitations of Incorporating Externalities in Competition Analysis within a Consumer Welfare Approach (Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas — SSRN)
- Consumer Welfare in the Digital Economy (Avinash Collis — SSRN)
- Innovation: Market Failures and Public Policies (Kevin A. Bryan & Heidi L. Williams — NBER)
Other:
- Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube (Hosseinmardi, Ghasemian, Clauset, Mobius, Rothschild & Watts)
- Do App Store Rules Matter? (Benedict Evans — Benedict Evans)
- On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models (Percy Liang — Stanford HAAI)
- PayPal’s Dan Schulman on seizing the opportunities in digital payments (Financial Times)
- Blockchain and the Evolution of Money (Michael Peneder, Jason Potts, & Trent MacDonald – Mint & Burn) 🎧
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Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
