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Associate Prof VU Amsterdam • Faculty Affiliate Stanford • Into Running 🏃🏻 #antitrust #AI #complexityscience #digitalmarkets #blockchain 📕 www.thibaultschrepel.com 📻 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scalingtheory

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · Dec 28

My rule for interactions on BlueSky (and elsewhere) is simple: I always assume it’s my interlocutor’s birthday. This means my messages are sent with kindness and compassion.

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 1d

New Antitrust Antidote: Apple case moves ahead; per se tying theory on Hermès doesn’t fly; alleged algorithmic/benchmarking collusion suits stumble on pleadings... All you need to know about recent U.S. antitrust cases is here: www.networklawreview.org/antidote-7/

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 2d

In this piece for Times Higher Education, I suggest a few simple experiments that any professor can run to see how GenAI impacts their own students. I hope this proves useful to some of you. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t...

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 7d

Here are @profschrepel.bsky.social’s monthly reading suggestions: DMA & EU users, killer acquisitions, auditable AI, AI Act political economy, GenAI & democracy, AI agents in econ, adaptive regulation + a special issue on law, tech & econ of AI: www.networklawreview.org/september-20...

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 6d

www.nber.org/papers/w34194
Interesting one. Market power persistence isn’t about lax antitrust enforcement. It’s the technology + learning dynamics that give certain cohorts lasting dominance.

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 7d

New essay out.

The AI Act multiplies review clauses, delegated acts, monitoring obligations. But it lacks true adaptive capacity. In complexity science terms, the EU has built “sensors without reflexes.”

I hope this resonates with colleagues working on AI governance.

Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 7d

The EU says its AI rules are “future proof.” They’re not, @profschrepel.bsky.social argues. Without adaptive regulation (modular rules, real-time monitoring, plural triggers, institutional memory) Brussels (and others!) will always be behind the curve. www.networklawreview.org/schrepel-fut...

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 8d

Skip the speculation on GenAI’s promise or peril – @profschrepel.bsky.social proposes hands-on teaching experiments to uncover its true effects: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t... #GenAI #AcademicSky #EduSky #AI

How to test GenAI’s impact on learning

Rather than speculate on GenAI’s promise or peril, Thibault Schrepel suggests simple teaching experiments to uncover its actual effects

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 8d

In my op-ed for Les Échos, I explain why the myth of “future-proof” regulation is doomed to fail, and why it is urgent to establish distributed revision mechanisms and real-time supervision.
👉 Read the full piece: www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats...

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 8d

NEW OP-ED. AI evolves every week. European regulations, every few years. The result: a widening gap between the speed of innovation and the slowness of legislation.

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 8d

Let me say it as it is: the newly launched Amsterdam Center for Digital Competition has secured the best acronym I’ve seen for a center: ACDC. This is close to genius. I am delighted to have been invited to it to give a talk on #computationalantitrust later today. More to come!

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 9d

NEW #computationalantitrust paper.
Using computational text analysis, Sean Norick Long (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) shows how Lina Khan reshaped antitrust beyond consumer welfare toward workers, power, and a more moralized public debate.
Link: law.stanford.edu/codex-the-st...

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 9d

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#23 – Thibault Schrepel: Adaptive Regulation

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 9d

For the first time, I recorded a solo episode of #ScalingTheory. I take a deep dive into adaptive regulation; why “future-proof” laws fall short, and how we can build rules that truly evolve with technology. I hope you'll enjoy the format.

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 9d

Today at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 12d

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Episode 36: Nancy Scola on Computational Antitrust and Antitrust Journalism

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 12d

New episode of the #computationalantitrust podcast. I talked with @nancyscola.bsky.social about the interplay between computational antitrust and antitrust reporting. Nancy had so many great insights. I very much enjoyed recording it, and I hope you'll enjoy listening to it.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 12d

Read it here: law.stanford.edu/2025/09/25/c...

CodeX Computational Antitrust Project at the OECD | Stanford Law School

Conferences usually end with reports. This one began with one. On June 18, 2025, the Computational Antitrust CodeX project launched its fourth cross-a

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 12d

Here is a summary of the #computationalantitrust event at the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social.

In a word: computational antitrust is here! At the OECD, agencies shared how they’re building tools, infrastructures & teams to enforce law with code. The frontier isn’t adoption, it’s integration!

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 15d

3/3 — 2. Measurement. Performance can be tracked with incredible accuracy. Progress is observable, results aren’t relative, data gives you the unvarnished truth. It’s a profoundly humbling and fun experience.
In short: if you can, start running!

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 15d

2/3 — 1. Independence. Your results don’t depend on anyone else. There are no tenure or grant committees, no peer reviewers, no external gatekeepers deciding whether your efforts are good enough or whether to award you something.

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 15d

1/3 — I ran a 10-mile race this weekend in the middle of my Frankfurt marathon prep (in about 1h03, anticipating the question). It reminded me of two reasons (among many) why I love running so much as an academic:

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 19d

🤗 pro.politico.eu/news/204967 + papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · 21d

NEW article by Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, President of Portuguese Competition Authority.
He argues that AI disruption demands a new regulatory ecosystem where competition law works hand in hand with other public policies www.networklawreview.org/cunha-rodrig...

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 22d

Heading to Paris (Université Paris II) to present my paper “Adaptive Regulation” for the first time (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) at a conference co-organized by the amazing Godefroy de Boiscuillé. The program (fondation.assas-universite.fr/fr/evenement...) looks outstanding. Join us.

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 22d

On my way to Paris.
Cheers from windy Amsterdam.

Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 23d

The all project is centralized papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... In the words of Sowell, the Commission (and Draghi) is constantly promoting an « unconstrained vision » piloted by a few.

Adaptive Regulation

What is adaptive regulation? Why does it matter? How can it be measured, and how can regulation be made more adaptive? I answer each of these four questions.

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