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Books

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“Algorithmic Antitrust”, (Springer, 2022), available here

“Principle of Economic Efficiency in the European Case-Law” (Paris, 2014) available in French

“Principle of Economic Efficiency in the European Case-Law” (Paris, 2014) available in French

Articles

 

Articles:

  1. Toward International Antitrust: Challenges and Opportunities, Competition Policy International, (2022);

  2. Biden Antitrust: The Paradox of the New Antitrust Populism, George Mason Law Review, (2022);

  3. The Digital Markets Act: The Path to Overregulation, Competition Policy International, June 13 (2022);

  4. Precautionary Antitrust: The Changing Nature of Competition Law in the Digital Era, The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, (2022);

  5. The (Ir)Relevance of Relevant Markets, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, (2022);

  6. Antitrust Law & Economics Under Attack: Populism Versus Innovation, SSRN Working Paper October 12, 2021, Forthcoming (2022);

  7. The DMA and the EU’s French Presidency: The Road to Precaution and Tensions, Competition Law Forum, n°0029 (2021);

  8. Antitrust and the Internet of Things: Addressing The Market Tipping Fallacy, Concurrences N°3-2021 (2021);

  9. The Digital Coase Theorem and the News, Competition Policy International, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, March 2021, 1-8 (2021);

  10. Algorithmic Governance and Article 102 TFEU, Concurrences, N°3-2020 (2020);

  11. Beyond Antitrust Populism: Robust Antitrust, Journal of Economic Affairs, Vol.40, (2020);

  12. Antitrust Populism: Towards a Taxonomy, With Joshua Wright, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance,  Vol.13, (2020);

  13. The Rise of Precautionary Antitrust: An Illustration with the EU Google Android Decision, Competition Policy International, November 17, 2019 (2019); 

  14. Google AdSense for Search: Fines Always Come in Threes, Competition Policy International, CPI EU News, April 2019 (2019);

  15. European Algorithmic Antitrust and Resale Price Maintenance, Competition Policy International, CPI EU News, November 2018 (2018);

  16. When Demotion is Competition: Algorithmic Antitrust Illustrated, Concurrences.  N°2-2018, (2018);

  17. From Non-Disclosure Agreements to Trade Secrets: Antitrust ImplicationsEuropean Competition Law Review, Vol.40 (2018); 

  18. The Case for an Innovation Principle: A Comparative Law & Economics Analysis, With Julien Pillot, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law. Vol.15, (2018);

  19. When Law & Economics Violates the Rule of Law: Three IllustrationsRule of Law and Anti-Corruption Journal, Vol.5 (2018);

  20. Towards a Meta Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Case of Brexit, Estey Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, Vol.19 (2018);

  21. Fine is Only One Click Away, Symposium on the Google Shopping Decision, European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, Vol.1 (2017);

  22. The Principle of Legal Certainty As a Principle of Economic Efficiency, With O. Gough, and J. Tanega, European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol.44 (2014);

  23. Principle of Proportionality as Principle of Economic Efficiency, European Law Journal, Vol.19 (2013) ;

  24. The Principle of Subsidiarity as a Principle of Economic Efficiency, Columbia Journal of European Law, Vol.17, (2012);

  25. Law and Economics of The European Multilingualism, European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol.34 (2012);

  26. A Natural Jurisprudential Account of International and European Legal Orders, SSRN Working Paper March 2010 (2010);

  27. A Darwinian Account of The Current European Multilingualism, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T.  66 (2010);

Reports / Comments / Book Chapters:

  1. Schumpeter Is Right, Brandeis Is Wrong: Large Retailers Benefit the Economy, (ITIF Report, April 2023);

  2. Platforms are the New Organizational Paradigm, (ITIF Report, March 2023);

  3. The Future of Competition Policy in Canada: The Need to Right the Ship, (ITIF Comments, March 2023);

  4. The Process of Creative Destruction Illustrated: The US Retail Industry, (ITIF Report, October 2022);

  5. The Digital Markets Act: A Triumph of Regulation Over Innovation, (ITIF Report, August 2022);

  6. The Revised (But Uncorrected) Version of the Klobuchar Bill, (ITIF Report, June 2022);

  7. Digital France: Rise and Fall, (CEPA Report, July 2022);

  8. Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem (ITIF Comments, May 2022);

  9. Five False Claims Underscore the Case Against the Senate’s Antitrust Bills, (ITIF Report, April 2022);

  10. Revising Merger Guidelines While Preserving the Process of Creative Destruction, (ITIF Comments, March 2022);

  11. American Precautionary Antitrust: Unrestrained FTC Rulemaking Authority, (ITIF Report, January 2022);

  12. The DOJ’s Draft Policy Statement on Licensing Negotiations and Remedies for Standard-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments (ITIF Comments, January 2022);

  13. Two Meanings of Competition, in Victoria Hewson (Ed.) The Meaning of Competition in the Digital Era, (Institute of Economic Affairs: London, 2022);

  14. Populism and The Economics of Antitrust, In M. Oswald (Ed.) The Palgrave Handbook on Populism, (2022);

  15. Antitrust Populism - Theory, In J. Backhaus (Ed.) “Encyclopedia of Law and Economics”,  (Springer: Heidelberg, 2022);

  16. Antitrust Populism - Practice, In J. Backhaus (Ed.) “Encyclopedia of Law and Economics”  (Springer: Heidelberg, 2022);

  17. The FTC’s Strategic Plan for 2022-2026: Populism, Precaution, and the Fated Neo-Brandeisian Revolution, (ITIF Comments, December 2021);

  18. For a Free and Fair Competition in Cloud Computing, (Institut Choiseul, November 2021);

  19. ‘Please, Help Yourself’: Toward a Taxonomy of Self-Preferencing, (ITIF Report, October 2021);

  20. The House’s Antitrust Legislative Package: An Innovation Perspective (ITIF Report, August 2021);

  21. Reforming Merger Reviews to Preserve Creative Destruction, (ITIF Report, September 2021);

  22. Reflections on President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition, With Robert D. Atkinson, Daniel Castro, Stephen Ezell, (ITIF Report, July 2021);

  23. Comments to the FTC on Whether to Rescind Its 2015 Policy Statement on ‘Unfair Methods of Competition’, (ITIF Comments, July 2021);

  24. Misfire: How The Digital Markets Act Will Unwittingly Hurt European Small Businesses, With Maksim Belitski, Richard Geibel, Joakim Wernberg, and Liad Wagman, (Catalyst Research Report, June 2021);

  25. Comments to the FTC on Pharmaceutical Consolidation and Competition, (ITIF Comments, June 2021);

  26. The Digital Markets Act: Precaution Over Innovation, (Epicenter, June 2021);

  27. Principles of Dynamic Antitrust: Competing Through Innovation, (ITIF Report, June 2021);

  28. The Digital Markets Act: European Precautionary Antitrust, (ITIF Report, May 2021);

  29. Comments to the European Commission on Its Proposed Digital Levy, With Rob Atkinson, (ITIF Comments, February 2021);

  30. Due Enforcement of Competition Law While Improvement Platform Workers’ Conditions, Comments for the European Commission as part of the Public Consultation on Collective bargaining agreements for self-employed—scope of application of EU competition rules (ITIF Comments, January 2021);

  31. Comments to the French Ministry of Economic Affairs on Implementation of the EU Directive “ECN+”, (ITIF Comments, January 2021);

  32. Precautionary Antitrust: A Precautionary Tale in European Competition Policy, in K. Mathis (Ed.) “Law & Economics of Regulation”, Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship (Heidelberg: Springer, 2021);

  33. European Integration, In J. Backhaus (Ed.) “Encyclopedia of Law and Economics” (Springer: Heidelberg, (2021);

  34. European Competition Enforcement and the Digital Economy: The Birthplace of Precautionary Antitrust, In J. Wright (Ed.) “Report on the Digital Economy”, (Global Antitrust Institute Report: George Mason University, 2020);

  35. Algorithmic Antitrust, Conference proceedings, Concurrences No3-2020, (Concurrences: Paris, 2020);

  36. EU Competition Law in Times of Globalisation and Digitalisation, Report for the French Parliament, (French Parliament: Paris, 2019);

  37. Why Sound Law & Economics Should Guide Competition Policy in the Digital Economy, With G. Manne, D. Auer, and T. Schrepel, Contribution of ICLE to the European Commission’s Inquiry on ‘Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitisation’,  (ICLE  Report, 2018);

  38. Trop prudents les Français? Adapter le droit à l’économie de l’innovation, With Julien Pillot (Jour d’Après  Report, 2018);

  39. European Regulatory Framework for Money Market Funds,  With Ian MacNeil, In Joseph Tanega and Viktoria Baklanova (Eds.), “Money Market Funds in the US  and in the EU”,  (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2014);

  40. The Case for a Principled Approach to Law and Economics: Efficiency Analysis and General Principles of EU Law, In K. Mathis (Ed.)  “Law and Economics in Europe:  Foundations and Applications”, (Springer: Heidelberg, 2014);

  41. Pour rétablir la liberté d’expression. Laissons parler les imbéciles, (Génération Libre Report: Paris, 2013);

  42. European Integration, In J.  Backhaus (Ed.) “Encyclopedia of Law and Economics”, (Springer: Heidelberg, 2014);

  43. The Cost of Multilingualism, In J. Roka and M. Laszlo (Eds.) “Concepts and Consequences of Multilingualism in Europe” (Communication and Business College Publishers: Budapest, 2012);

 

Shorter Articles / Op-Eds:

  1. U.S. Antitrust Kneecaps Companies Trying to Compete Globally, RealClearMarkets, April 10 (2023);

  2. App Store Implementation of the Digital Markets Act Exemplifies Law’s Uncertain Future, Innovation Files, With Kir Nuthi, March 20 (2023);

  3. Let’s Unite for US Tech Leadership, Mr. President, With Rob Atkinson & Daniel Castro, January 14 (2023);

  4. Will Antitrust Undermine the Future of Gaming? DC Journal, Janaury 2, (2023);

  5. An Antitrust Agenda for a Split Congress, Innovation Files, December 16, (2022);

  6. FTC Rulemaking for Online Marketplaces Would Be Deja Vu all Over Again, Innovation Files, December 15, (2022);

  7. FTC Announcement of ‘Commercial Surveillance’ Highlights the Need for Federal Data Privacy Legislation, Innovation Files, With Ashley Johnson, August 17 (2022);

  8. A Tribute to FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips, Innovation Files, August 10, (2022);

  9. The Road to Antitrust’s Least Glorious Hour, Truth On the Market, July 29 (2022);

  10. Don’t Be Afraid of the Metaverse, Innovation Files, July 29 (2022);

  11. How an Antitrust Bill May Harm Consumers: The AICOA Bill Illustrated, Innovation Files, May 26 (2022);

  12. Reason, Not Resentment, Should Inform Antitrust Legislation, Innovation Files, May 26 (2022);

  13. Antitrust Bills Under Fire From Former Chief Economists, Innovation Files, May 2 (2022);

  14. Why Antitrust Should Be off the Table for Content Moderation on Social Media Platforms, March 26 (2022);

  15. How Congress Got It Wrong on Tech Industry Competition, Inside Sources, February 16 (2022);

  16. Open Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Regarding the ‘Open App Markets Act’ (S.2710), Letter to Senators of the Judiciary Committee, January 24, (2022);

  17. Open Letter to Sens. Durbin, Grassley, Klobuchar and Lee Regarding the ‘American Innovation and Choice Online Act’ (S.2992), Letters to Senators of the Judiciary Committee, January 19, (2022);

  18. Is Congress Committed to Making American Consuners’ Lives Costlier? Washington Legal Foundation Legal Pulse, January 12, (2022);

  19. When Beefing Up Competition Bleeds at Consumers’ Misfortune, Innovation Files, January 4, (2022);

  20. Biden Administration Rightly Speaks Out on Europe’s DMA, Innovation Files, December 13, (2021);

  21. Let’s Not Be Goofy About GIPHY: The Antitrust Race to Inefficiency, Innovation Files, December 10 (2021);

  22. Brexit UK Rivals Europe in the Race to Crack Down on Big Tech, Center for European Policy Analysis, December 6 (2021);

  23. French Tech Policy and Its Contradictions, Center for European Policy Analysis, October 29 (2021);

  24. The “MeWe” Moment of Antitrust, Washington Legal Foundation Legal Pulse, October 7 (2021);

  25. A Call for Antitrust Legislation to Protect the American Worker (a Parody), Innovation Files, October 1 (2021);

  26. Reigning in Digital Gatekeepers —a Bad Idea, Center for European Policy Analysis, September 23 (2021);

  27. Higher Prices on Amazon? Another Example of the “Brussels Effect”, Innovation Files, September 3 (2021);

  28. Techno-Authoritarian China Shouldn’t Be an Inspiration for U.S. Antitrust Techlash, Innovation Files, August 30 (2021);

  29. The Newly Assertive FTC Faces Its First Big Test—and It Doesn’t Look Promising, Innovation Files, August 23 (2021);

  30. Senate Hearing Inadvertently Shows Why Antitrust Policy Is the Wrong Prescription for What Ails Drug Markets, With Stephen Ezell, Innovation Files, July 21 (2021);

  31. Changes to Antitrust Policy Would Harm U.S. Economy, Times Union, June 29 (2021);

  32. The EU Must Make (Digital) Peace, Not War, With the United States, New Europe, June 10 (2021);

  33. How Antitrust Regulators Threaten Consumer Privacy Innovations, With Daniel Castro, Innovation Files, May 17 (2021);

  34. President Biden’s Antitrust Unorthodoxy, Washington Legal Foundation Legal Pulse, May 6 (2021);

  35. The EU Proposal for a Transatlantic Tech Partnership Is Not Credible: Here’s Why, Innovation Files, April 20 (2021);

  36. Each Time History Repeats Itself, Cost Goes Up: Amazon’s Antitrust Déjà Vu, Innovation Files, April 13 (2021);

  37. Looking Backward to a Future of State-Administered Tech Companies, Innovation Files, March 25 (2021);

  38. FTC Should Have Global Antitrust Regulatory Aspirations, Law360, March 19 (2021);

  39. Democrats’ Antitrust Reform May Revamp Competition—But at the Expense of Innovation?, Innovation Files, March 8 (2021);

  40. Digital Taxation Is Not The Solution to The Covid-19 Fiscal Crisis, Innovation Files, February 19 (2021);

  41. Two Pitfalls Lawmakers Must Avoid in House Antitrust Subcommittee Hearings on “Reviving Competition”, Innovation Files, February 24 (2021);

  42. Regulating Gatekeepers Will Raise Walls, Not Open Doors, Innovation Files, February 9 (2021);

  43. Facebook’s Antitrust Lawsuit: The Myth of Clean Breakups, Innovation Files, January 29 (2021);

  44. Is Facebook’s Update to WhatsApp Privacy Rules Really a Problem? Innovation Files, January 27 (2021);

  45. The Antitrust Prohibition of Favoritism, or the Imposition of Corporate Selflessness, Truth on the Market, December 16 (2020);

  46. Fear and Loathing of Google on the Campaign Trail Was a Loss for All of Us, With Rob Atkinson, Innovation Files, December 2 (2020);

  47. Antitrust, Innovation, and Legal Certainty: What the German Legislative Proposal Tells Us, Innovation Files, November 30 (2020);

  48. Populist Fervor Is Upending Antitrust Policy, Law360, November 22 (2020);

  49. Antitrust in Political Battlefield—Google Trapped in Partisan Battle, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, October 29 (2020);

  50. A Search for Sanity in Antitrust: Move (Too) Fast, Break (Innovative) Things? Innovation Files, October 28 (2020);

  51. Populisme et concurrence des géants du numérique: ce que l’histoire nous enseigne, La Tribune, October 10 (2020);

  52. Lessons from the UK’s A-level Algorithm Debacle, Institute of Economic Affairs, September 22 (2020);

  53. Ryanair / Aer Lingus, Oxford Competition Law (2020);

  54. Antitrust Law & Economics of the Coronavirus. Oxford Competition Law Blog, May 12 (2020);

  55. La Concurrence Au Temps du Populisme, Académie Libre des Sciences Sociales, April(2020);

  56. Deutsche Telekom Case, Oxford Competition Law (2019);

  57. Coty Case, Oxford Competition Law (2019);

  58. The Trans-Atlantic Tech Backlash: Convergence on GAFA Antitrust, Oxford Competition Law Blog, September 11 (2019)

  59. Alstom-Siemens Merger:  Championing the European Antitrust Mindset, Oxford Competition Law Blog, February 8 (2019); 

  60. Réguler les Gafa: le doux parfum du populisme, L’Opinion, February 13 (2019);

  61. Laissons parler less imbéciles, Libération, December 19 (2013);