Thoughtful antitrust, not make-believe antitrust. Prof at EUI & co-founder Dynamic Competition Initiative (DCI). Opinions mine only, not of any group or institution I belong to.
Nicolas Petit is a French Belgian academic specializing in competition policy, economic regulation, law and technology. He is Joint Chair in Competition Law at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, in the Department of Law and at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. .. more
The future of Europe is ours, we can decide.
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6/6
💊 Blue pill: Path dependency, decline, and irrelevance.
💊 Red pill: Rebirth, dynamism, and a new industrial revolution
5/6
Europe must confront trade-offs, face empirical reality, and make the hard choice: prosperity over stagnation
4/6
❌ Defending legacy assets
❌ Propping up zombie firms
❌ Falling for self-aggrandizing superstitions like the “Brussels effect” or “integration through law”
3/6
Europe doesn’t need more regulation, more bureaucracy, or more mission creep. It needs to focus on what made it great: economic dynamism, open markets, and a culture that rewards innovation
2/6
This week, Luis Garicano @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy and Bengt Holmström (MIT), we launched The Constitution of Innovation - a a new European renaissance.
We make 6 proposals.
Read them at constitutionofinnovation.eu
#Europe #Innovation 1/6
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Elon Musk seems to be arguing big digital businesses should have a "fairness" obligation -- this is the very core of EU laws he blasts so frequently
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Elon Musk seems to be arguing big digital businesses should have a "fairness" obligation -- this is the very core of EU laws he blasts so frequently
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Chinese officials discuss sale of TikTok to Elon Musk.
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While you’re at it, European Commission: kill the Digital Fairness Act. Thanks.
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In the latest #EUIUpFront, @competitionprof.bsky.social, Head of the @eui-law.bsky.social, & @ivanenadic.bsky.social, @eui-schuman.bsky.social Research Fellow, discuss the shifting balance of power between tech giants & the state.
📹 Watch: buff.ly/a6gdlPG
Less ideal that consolidation is unfolding along national lines.
The big question: will stronger national champions finally unlock real cross-border banking in the EU?
Legal scholars claim Amazon dominates without rivals.
Economists claim algorithms collude.
When theory fails to match reality… ignore reality?
In the latest #EUIUpFront, @competitionprof.bsky.social, Head of the @eui-law.bsky.social, & @ivanenadic.bsky.social, @eui-schuman.bsky.social Research Fellow, discuss the shifting balance of power between tech giants & the state.
📹 Watch: buff.ly/a6gdlPG
