Session No. 1: "Competition Policy for the Digital Era" (April 10, 2019)
Report by Jacques Crémer, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, and Heike Schweitzer, 2019 (Special Advisors for EU DG Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager)
Session No. 2: "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox"
Session No. 3: “The Antitrust Case Against Facebook” (May 23, 2019)
Paper by Dina Srivinasan, 2019
Slides
Session No. 4: “Protecting competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets” (September 5, 2019)
Paper by Carl Shapiro, JEP 2019
Slides
Session No. 5: "Overview of competition law in the US and Europe" (September 18, 2019)
Session No. 6: "Topics in Regulation" (October 9, 2019)
Podcast on corporate self-regulation; FT article; article and podcast on regulatory capture; article on regulation vs. antitrust; paper on privacy regulation and heterogeneous impacts on firms
Session No. 7: "Big Tech Mergers" (November 21, 2019)
Report by Lear/CMA; podcast "Competiton Lore" with the Paolo Buccirossi
Session No. 8: "E-Books - A Tale of Digital Disruption" (March 5, 2020)
JEP Article (Gilbert, 2015)
Session No. 9: "Antitrust and Inequality" (March 18, 2020)
Paper by Baker and Salop (2015)
Slides
Session No. 10: "USA v Microsoft" (March 25, 2020)
Session No. 11: "The Android Case" (April 8th, 2020)
Paper by Geraldin and Edelman (2016)
Additional reads: paper and summarizing article by de Cornière and Taylor (2018); press release by European Commission
Session No. 12: Preliminary Research Project Presentation (April 23rd, 2020)
Session No. 13:" The Antitrust Case against Apple" (June 9th, 2020).
Thanks to the reading group having switched to virtual, this was the first time we had an external invited speaker: Melissa Newham (KU Leuven and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)) presented some insights into a recent working paper: "The Antitrust Case against Apple" (joint work with Bapu Kotapati, Simon Mutungi, Jeff Schroeder, Shili Shao, and Melody Wang), followed by a discussion amongst all reading group participants.
Session No.14: "Data and Competition" (October 8th 2020)