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Antitrust Chronicle® – Network Effects

Antitrust Chronicle® October 2025 Volume 1

Dear Readers,   This edition of the Chronicle brings together a set of reflections on network effects, data, and the long shadow they cast over modern competition law. Each contribution examines, from a different angle, the mechanisms by which digital platforms accumulate advantage and the policy responses that might be...

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July

The contributions in this Chronicle explore whether existing privacy frameworks remain fit for purpose in an environment characterized by large-scale data collection, increasingly sophisticated identification technologies, and evolving theories of harm.




June

“Buy Now, Pay Later” (“BNPL”) has moved from fintech curiosity to embedded infrastructure in modern consumer markets, quietly reshaping how credit is extended, priced, and experienced. What began as a frictionless alternative to traditional lending now sits at the intersection of payments, consumer protection, and competition policy.




May

As health systems evolve beyond purely clinical data toward richer, more contextualized information environments, the integration of SDoH into AI systems raises a central tension: the same data that can improve equity and care delivery can also encode and obscure discrimination. The contributions in this issue begin to map that terrain.


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