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Antitrust Chronicle® – Network Effects

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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Antitrust Chronicle® – Network Effects
CPI
Oct 23, 2025
Synthetic Data, Network Effects, and the Future of Competition
Rozhina Ghanavi, Catherine E. Tucker
Oct 23, 2025
On Artificial Intelligence and Network Effects
Pinar Yildirim
Oct 23, 2025
Complementarities, Network Effects, and the Antitrust Puzzle of Platform M&A
Yangyang Cheng, Daniel Sokol, Carmelo Cennamo
Oct 23, 2025
Avoiding the Oversimplification of Network Effects
Christopher Yoo
Oct 23, 2025
Are Digital Platforms Bound to Decay? An Economic Examination of the “Enshittification” Thesis
Paul Belleflamme
Oct 23, 2025
Network Effects, Platforms, and Antitrust Markets: Economic Authority in American Express
John E. Lopatka, William H. Page
Oct 23, 2025

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