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Nicolas Petit

@competitionprof.bsky.social
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Thoughtful antitrust, not make-believe antitrust. Prof at EUI & co-founder Dynamic Competition Initiative (DCI). Opinions mine only, not of any group or institution I belong to.

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Ben Schroeter @benschroeter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Must read by @lugaricano.bsky.social and @competitionprof.bsky.social. constitutionofinnovation.eu
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The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance
An academic paper examining Europe's innovation challenges and proposing a constitutional framework for economic renaissance.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Decline is a choice, not a fate. This week, Luis Garicano @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy and Bengt Holmström (MIT), we launched The Constitution of Innovation - a a new European renaissance. We make 6 proposals. Read them at constitutionofinnovation.eu #Europe #Innovation 1/6
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The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance
An academic paper examining Europe's innovation challenges and proposing a constitutional framework for economic renaissance.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My latest paper explains why the US v Google case identified monopoly power on the wrong side of the bargaining table. Comments welcome 🙏 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This is so uplifting. There are so many strong symbols to celebrate behind the award: democracy, individual freedom, free markets, and institutions like Nobel that remain independent from political pressure.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Am conducting a survey: what did the digital economy break? - local journalism - information trustworthiness - … Please help me complete
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Hey students from Sweden 🇸🇪: here you can find information for three full scholarships to come to study international security at the Hertie School (@hertieschool.bsky.social, @hertiesecurity.bsky.social) in Berlin. www.hertie-school.org/en/study/fun...
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Ax:son Johnson Scholarship
This scholarship is for applicants from Sweden with a demonstrated interest in international security and German-Swedish relations.
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EUI Department of Law @eui-law.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Our professor @competitionprof.bsky.social quoted in Politico Europe on the landmark ASML–Mistral deal and its implications for European tech sovereignty 🇪🇺💻 www.politico.eu/article/asml...
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ASML-Mistral is Europe’s dream tech tie-up. Can it deliver?
Two tech champions face the daunting task of keeping Europe on the AI map.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The only value of a university is structural, not substantive. Very nice piece from former @eui-eu.bsky.social law professor Dennis Patterson on academic neutrality www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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How to save the American university
As Trump threatens funding and public trust plummets, US schools are in the fight of a lifetime. This is how they can survive – with their souls intact
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It’s that time to repost “understanding market power” - a full guide to the tricky but essential economics behind antitrust law. If you teach or study antitrust this fall, feel free to use it. Feedback is very welcome to help me improve the next version papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Coup de foudre. Le sublime atteint sous la plume de l’empereur Hadrien. Ne naît-on littérairement qu’après sa première rencontre avec Marguerite Yourcenar?
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Guess who has bargaining power here.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
One day against the DMA, the next one against. It’s like his support to Trump. At least Musk is consistent in inconsistency 😁.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Check out today’s exhibit on misinformation: @economist.com subtitle suggesting a baseline of irrelevance at the EUI.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Debate.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Encouraging to see Brussels push back on political interference in legitimate bank M&A. Less ideal that consolidation is unfolding along national lines. The big question: will stronger national champions finally unlock real cross-border banking in the EU?
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Can’t be true! Legal scholars claim Amazon dominates without rivals. Economists claim algorithms collude. When theory fails to match reality… ignore reality?
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Big data, big power … big what exactly? Was a delight to discuss with @ivanenadic.bsky.social. Looking fwd to our next coffee.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
As @jeffjarvis.bsky.social might say: blaming the decades-old collapse of local journalism on one company - no matter how big - is grotesque. Correlation isn’t causation, even if you’ve got a Nobel Prize.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The legal illnesses of the EU surface from this 🔥 thread by @lugaricano 1️⃣ Integration through law bureaucratised Europe breaking our ability to build 2️⃣ Infatuation w/ a European 3rd way led to dismiss existing solutions that scale works across energy, health, digital, …
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The antitrust cases in @FTC v Meta and US v Google are strong examples of a phenomenon known in economics as 'time inconsistency'. What seems like efficient correction today may lead to unintended economic distortions tomorrow. A thread 🧵1/n.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Quick puzzle on the US v Google remedy trial. Press coverage suggests the Government's focus is as much punitive/deterrent as restorative. So why is the Gov pushing for a breakup? From a legal standpoint, there are better options than breakups for punishment or compensation 1/n
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Zander Arnao @zanderarnao.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
@competitionprof.bsky.social asks - would George Stigler approve of regulating big tech? See Stigler's foundational paper 👇 www.jstor.org/stable/3003160 #StiglerAntitrust25
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Interesting exhibition in DC.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Interesting new GenAI feature that Meta rolled out on WhatsApp. As I wrote in my 2020 book, winner-takes-most dynamics in digital often arise from a process of competition *for* the best User Interface (UI) #AI 1/n
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Apparently, if you want an LLM trained on the corpus of my writing and research, Meta is the one for you.
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
To sum it up: Elon said only morons buy jet-fighters, Andreessen doubled down on it, Shyam Shankar wrote First Breakfast & the 18 thesis to break the oligopoly of Military-Industrial Complex, and in the end Boeing will build the next jet-fighter. www.defensenews.com/air/2025/03/...
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Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47
The Air Force said Boeing's F-47 will fly by the end of President Trump's administration.
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Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen @leahnylen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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FTC Nominee Mark Meador Pledges to Focus on Tech, Noncompete Agreements
Mark Meador, President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the third Republican seat on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, told a Senate panel the agency should focus on the tech industry and the ab...
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Library access not working 😢. Can someone help? I want to read Majone 1. Regulatory federalism in the European Community 2. Europe as the Would-be World Power: The EU at Fifty 3. Federation, confederation, and mixed government: A EU-US comparison. 🙏 tons for any help.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📖 Our article with @MarcoAlmada on the AI Act is now available at the Common Market Law Review! "The EU AI Act: Between the rock of product safety and the hard place of fundamental rights" 🎸 gives an intro to the Act's provisions and regulatory logics papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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EUI Department of Law @eui-law.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Max Weber Fellow @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, alumni @leticiadiezsanchez.bsky.social, Sarah Tas, Theodosia Stavroulaki, and @marcoalmada.com, as well as Prof. @competitionprof.bsky.social 🎓👏 📖 Read the full edition here: ➡ loom.ly/eEdfP8Q
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Berkeley Policy Institute @berkpolicyinst.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In a Journal of European Competition Law & Practice editorial, @competitionprof.bsky.social (EUI Law Dept. & Dynamic Competition Initiative) and David Teece (BPI Executive Director) propose a new way forward: integrating #capabilities into #competitionlaw. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Capabilities: The Next Step For The Economic Construction Of Competition Law
Competition policy can help promote an economy's innovation potential. To advance this goal, a shift toward studying firm-level capabilities is essential. Capab
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Read this, then remember the competitive apocalypse predicted by anti-monopoly charlatans in the dawn of the Google/Fitbit merger techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/s...
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Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form | TechCrunch
Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, smartwatch maker Pebble abruptly closed in 2016,
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shepter.bsky.social @shepter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump’s negotiating style is similar to a guy walking into a convenience store with a suicide vest and walking out with a pack of gum.
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Ahmad Lashkaripour @lashkaripour.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I have several papers that explore tariff wars using economic models. Here’s what they tell us about likely outcomes (🧵) TLDR: All countries ultimately lose. While the overall impact isn’t catastrophic for larger economies like the US, it’ll be devastating for small countries.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The EU needs a DDA, that is a Digital Deregulation Act.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Last week's deal btw Zuckerberg and Trump? Content moderation v sale of TikTok to unfit buyer. Facebook's best-case scenario => Musk does to TikTok what he does to Twitter.
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Never a dull day in antitrust Chinese officials discuss sale of TikTok to Elon Musk. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option
Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according...
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Last week, one of our papers was mentioned by none other than Nobel Laureate @dacemoglumit.bsky.social. I want to take the opportunity to engage critically with the points he raised in his recent "Remaking the Tech Sector" thread. I write here as an econ-friendly antitrust lawyer🧵 1/N
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Remarquable essai d’Eva Illouz expliquant les ressorts de la faute morale d’une gauche s’oubliant à l’antisémitisme.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The @financialtimes.com recently featured a piece asking if France, and Europe, could become “a global AI powerhouse”. The FT piece has clear connections with the Draghi Report's embrace of a form of ‘European Preference’ 🇪🇺 in the chapter on competition policy. #AI #DraghiReport 1/n
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
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High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts
The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.
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Igor Letina @igorletina.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Planning your 2025 economics conference schedule? I've updated my list of general interest, IO, and theory conferences: www.igorletina.com/conferences.... New this year: you can generate a calendar file 📅 to easily track dates and submission deadlines of selected conferences. #econsky
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
What I meant a few days ago by EU preference is an exorbitant law and policy approach supportive of domestic AI ecosystems like Station F and firms like @mistralai.bsky.social 1/n
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
🤯 that even with Trump’s bad economic policies, “most economists — including at the IMF, the OECD and the European Commission — forecast stronger growth in the US than in Europe in 2025”. #draghi #competitiveness
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Super useful
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
May 2025 bring you and your family large gains in consumer welfare! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
While the political influence of big tech monopolies is a hot topic, it's remarkable that few of Trump's appointees are drawn from their ranks 1/n
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 29/12/2024
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Among law professors, the great @marklemley.bsky.social stands unrivaled as the champion of engagement on Bluesky. Truly in a relevant market of his own.
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Nicolas Petit @competitionprof.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
There’s an easy way for people to fix their twitter cesspool. Cut down the accounts you follow by a factor 10.
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