Thibault Schrepel

🎙️ NEW PODCAST 🎙️
Where should I start? I am launching a new academic podcast called “Scaling Theory”. I am of course incredibly excited, but more importantly, I hope you’ll find it interesting.
I want to explore the power laws behind the growth of businesses, technologies, legal systems, and living systems. The podcast will feature scholarly discussions with select guests (I’ve already recorded a couple, to be published very soon!!) and deep dives into the academic literature. Everything is explained in the introductory episode.
➝ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7o5GqRfTO…
➝ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sca…
➝ YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCoxJ0…

I coded 108 decisions and judgments on access to a dominant firm’s input, from Commercial Solvents (1974) to WhatsApp. WhatsApp is the only Article 102 prohibition or interim order in which the Commission itself sets the price of access at zero. thecompetitionsystem.substack.com/p/the-price-of…

Every digital competition intervention is now a cybersecurity event. Every security architecture is a market structure decision.

EU law has not caught up. The DMA forces openness without asking what it does to security, and the Data Act reduces security to an exception clause.

Our new paper maps the gaps and proposes a fix papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I am organizing a conference at VU Amsterdam on 14 December. Peter Wennink, Martijn Snoep, Cani Fernández, Marc van der Woude and an Oxford-style debate I will moderate. Join us!!
alti.amsterdam/future-of-digi…

The lesson of the WhatsApp decision for every platform. Opening an API to third parties creates the evidence that will be used to keep it open, whatever the reason you opened it. Openness now carries a legal cost. thecompetitionsystem.substack.com/p/the-price-of…