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Antitrust Chronicle® – Industrial Policy

Antitrust Chronicle® May 2025 Volume 2

Dear Readers,   This edition of the Chronicle gathers a set of contributions grappling with one of the most pressing economic governance questions of our time: how should competition policy respond to, align with, or constrain the resurgence of industrial policy? Amid geopolitical upheaval, technological flux, and mounting climate imperatives,...

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July

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June

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