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80+ antitrust agencies are already part of the Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust network. The newsletter is how we share what we find.
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New on Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust:
LLM-driven agents collude tacitly in a Bertrand duopoly, no instruction needed. This paper shows it can be detected with Smart Agent-Based Modelling. This is the future. law.stanford.edu/publications...
OFFICIAL press release by the Paraguayan Competition Authority announcing their are joining the Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust project (@codexstanford.bsky.social) conacom.gov.py/la-conacom-s...
NEW episode of the Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust podcast with Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima, head of CADE. Brazil’s antitrust agency never ceases to amaze: automated decision-making within minutes, an app, live streaming, cartel detection in public procurement, and more.
Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust project never stops growing. Today, we welcome Zimbabwe’s Competition and Tariff Commission to the project law.stanford.edu/codex-the-st...
And now... COMESA! (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Eswatini, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) #computationalantitrust
Important case for the future of #computationalantitrust. I share my 2 cents with @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/court-advise...
Currently in Zambia to talk about the DMA and #computationalantitrust at the COMESA. This is my kind of antitrust conferences!
New publication!
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦
Author: Jorge Padilla
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Happy to deliver a practical workshop on #computationalantitrust for the Saudi General Authority for Competition🇸🇦 today. I remain available to other agencies engaged in the Stanford Computational Antitrust project to offer workshops tailored to their legal systems.
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!
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.
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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.
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!
... and the legal challenges they face. Join us online for an unparalleled lineup of experts in the field.
Registration: meetoecd1.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Thank you so very much to CodeX and the OECD for making this event possible.
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Great coverage of our 4th annual conference on #ComputationalAntitrust by CECO: centrocompetencia-com.translate.goog/computationa...
NEW: I talk #computationalantitrust with Kamil Nejezchleb, Vice-chairman of Czech Competition Autority.
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Here are @profschrepel.bsky.social’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include: concentration in AI agents, #computationalantitrust, Lina Khan 2.0, GDPR ineffectiveness, democracies & capitalism, the network science of philosophy, and more. www.networklawreview.org/april-2025/
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NEW EPISODE 📻 with Andy Chen, Acting Chair of the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. Andy and I talk about how the TFTC uses computational tools in merger review, price monitoring, and cartel detection... #computationalantitrust
The Heads of antitrust agencies all agree: #computationalantitrust is one of their top priorities!
➝ Cani Fernández (🇪🇸): youtu.be/yHxEV6eAceA?...
➝ Mahmoud Momtaz (🇪🇬): youtu.be/VYGGqf4t9fo?...
RECORDING of our 4th annual conference now available! 🎥 The first panel is dedicated to the most advanced state of #computationalantitrust in courts, agencies, law firms, and academia. It features:
NEW episode of Stanford #computationalantitrust podcast with Natalie Harsdorf, Head of the Austrian Competition Authority. We talk about her priorities, with a focus on the role computational antitrust plays in the agency’s strategy and daily operations.
Coming up later this week: a conversation with Natalie Harsdorf-Borsch, Head of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority. Here talking about forthcoming legislative changes in Austria. #computationalantitrust #DMA
NEW: Teodora Groza and I had a discussion with Cary Coglianese (Penn) about the use of AI by public administrations. #Computationalantitrust can greatly benefit from administrative law insights.
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UPDATE: The Stanford Computational Antitrust project (law.stanford.edu/computationa...) now partners with 72 antitrust agencies. New additions:
➝ The Ireland Competition and Consumer Protection Commission 🇮🇪
➝ The Dominican Republic National Commission of Competition Defense 🇩🇴
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