The antitrust community is increasingly interested in digital markets. Most of the existing body of research suggests that such markets require a reassessment of antitrust law key concepts. There is little-published literature, however, dealing with the new types of anti-competitive strategies...

Predatory innovation – which is defined as the alteration of one or more technical elements of a product to limit or eliminate competition – is arguably one of the most important subjects faced by antitrust law in the context of the New Economy. It encompasses all practices that, under the...

In the first quarter of 2022, the Stanford Computational Antitrust project team invited the partnering antitrust agencies to share their advances in implementing computational tools. Here are the results of the survey

Mark Zuckerberg introduced Libra to the world in June 2019 with the goal of “enabl[ing] a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.” Two months after, and without waiting for the project to be launched, the European Commission sent a questionnaire...

Antitrust and competition law is subject to increasing polarization, especially regarding Internet giants. Some scholars argue that the tech giants abuse their dominant positions, while others point to the increase they contribute to consumer welfare. These two camps seem irreconcilable, mainly...

Computational antitrust is a new domain of legal informatics which seeks to develop computational methods for the automation of antitrust procedures and the improvement of antitrust analysis. The present article first introduces it, then explores how agencies, policymakers, and market...

Applying the per se illegality doctrine for years has proven to be a mistake. The challenge is now to avoid committing the same error by applying per se legality for practices related to the New Economy — notably predatory innovation. This Article then advocates for eliminating per se legality...

I am pleased to introduce these "Antitrust Conversations" with some of the world's most renowned antitrust law experts (law professors, economists & officials...) in which we discuss in-depth important - and controversial - issues of contemporary antitrust law. I will update this document on a...