I share the papers and articles I enjoyed reading this month. This edition runs from what acquirers actually keep when they buy a startup to the causation element in monopolization cases, a practical ...

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include the European Commission’s draft merger guidelines, how well merger simulations predict price changes, why data neutrality can s...

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI agents and complexity economics in antitrust, the limits of the waterbed effect, Europe’s regulatory drift toward American d...

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 is the most ambitious economic transformation program in the world today, yet it is widely misunderstood in the West. This article introduces a new analytical framework to e...

Here are Thibault Schrepel's monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI's reshaping of research and publishing, end-to-end automation of scientific inquiry, the economics of AI talent in universit...

Many parts of the legal system pursue “fair” distributions of wealth or economic status. Antitrust law does not. The antitrust statutes target practices that reduce output or threaten monopoly—measure...

Generative AI is lowering the marginal cost of academic writing. A natural prediction is that this will allow more researchers to exercise scientific influence. This article argues that the effects ar...

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include market power and competition regimes, the limits of AI scaling, the impact of large language models on scientific production, p...

As for previous years, here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles posted on SSRN during 2025.

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include measure market power, nascent competition and killer acquisitions, the end of the Brussels effect, the welfare effect of price ...

This special issue examines the coexistence of industrial and competition policy in a period of geopolitical rivalry and rapid technological change. The contributions analyze these tensions through th...

In product markets that rely heavily on artificial intelligence (AI), firms both use data and generate data. For a multiproduct firm, the data generated by one product will often have spillover benefi...

This paper argues that the unintended and unanticipated costs of globalization revealed during the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have led to a renewed embrace of industrial poli...

The EU’s quest for “future-proof” AI regulation is a fantasy. AI evolves through emergent properties that defy prediction, yet Brussels continues to draft rules with an industrial, linear mindset. The...

Artificial Intelligence technologies prompt several doctrinal shifts in competition law. For AI market governance, this means moving toward personalized enforcement. Rather than applying one-size-fits...

This article examines the problem of statutory obsolescence in the regulation of rapidly evolving technologies, with a focus on GDPR and generative AI. It shows how core GDPR provisions on lawful proc...

The Network Law Review is pleased to present a special issue entitled “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI.” This issue brings together multiple disciplines around a central question: What kind of ...

AI systems now perform core compliance tasks once reserved for humans. Prof. Ohm argues that this will drive the marginal cost of regulatory compliance toward zero. The claim is grounded in the nature...

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include AI openness, how AI improves itself, the unintended consequences of privacy regulation (it's bad), vertical integration and con...

Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include: concentration in AI agents, computational antitrust, Lina Khan 2.0, AI liability, AI 2027, GDPR ineffectiveness, technological...

Abstract: AI agents lie at the frontier of the evolving AI economy, functioning as applications that autonomously execute tasks on users’ behalf. While contemporary discourse on market concentration i...

The European Union’s AI Act is one of the first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence technologies. Given that previous European digital regulations, such as the GDPR, have influenced laws all ...

Rising market power in the U.S. is largely driven by technological advances rather than weak antitrust enforcement. Industry studies show that innovation has reduced costs, improved quality, and, in s...

As for previous years, here are the world’s most downloaded antitrust and competition law articles posted on SSRN during 2024.