HIRING: I am looking for a PhD candidate (4 years, competitive salary and benefits) on the subject of “Digital Ecosystems in Competition Law and Market Regulation”. Deadline: 20 May 2024. Please share 🙏🏼 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-… Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

PUBLISHED VERSION: My article entitled “The Evolution of Economies, Technologies, and Other Institutions: Exploring W. Brian Arthur’s Insights” is now published in the Journal of Institutional Economics (Cambridge University Press). It seeks to further brings complexity science (and economics)…

On March 4, the EU Competition fined Apple €1.84 billion “over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers”. In this short contribution, I explore the good, the bad, and the ugly about the case networklawreview.org/apple-music-st….

Episode 2 of the Scaling Theory podcast is now available. My guest is Geoffrey West, physicist and former president of the Santa Fe Institute.
By the end of this episode, you will know more about the power law behind the heartbeat of all mammals, the number of patents and crime in big…

Wow. Thank you all so much for coming from all over the world to talk about Generative AI. The recording will be sent out soon (link to get it: forms.gle/3qNUcpmCpBfrwS…) Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute | ALTI Weizenbaum-Institut

We are hiring! Join our growing team focused on law & technology. You will research and teach top-notch topics part of a collaborative working environment, in beautiful Amsterdam! Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Law VU
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The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute | ALTI is co-organizing a conference on the “Dynamics of Generative AI” together with the Weizenbaum-Institut (Berlin, Germany). The event follows the publication of dedicated articles – that Volker Stocker and I edited – in the Network Law Review. Registration to receive a recording…

15 months in the making, and here it is: in this working paper, we deploy agent-based modeling to antitrust for the first time: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Specifically, we provide a computer simulation with unique agents (i.e., agents with different speed/privacy preferences)…

In this short article for the Network Law Review, I argue that the only way to develop a working theory of ecosystems in antitrust is through complexity science. I use #GenerativeAI as an example to show how this could work in practice networklawreview.org/schrepel-ecosy….

The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute | ALTI, together with the Weizenbaum-Institut, is pleased to announce a symposium on Generative AI, co-edited and organized by our very own Thibault Schrepel and Volker Stocker. alti.amsterdam/symposium-on-g…

I am so sorry to hear that Dan Burk passed away yesterday. RIP, Dan! Thank you for everything. Your always kind words, your inspiring scholarship, your enthusiasm…
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In a new article, Nicolas Petit, Bowman Heiden and Thibault Schrepel (@alti_VU) present a new approach to putting innovation at the heart of (digital) competition law and policy alti.amsterdam/situating-dyna….

Competition between AI foundation models is (also) defined by the ability to access unique data sets, not (only) by access to big data.
➝ Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
➝ Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=V8vJTE… Alex Pentland EU Competition

The Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute is a proud co-sponsor!

📣 JOB ALERT 🔥
We have an opening: Ph.D. position in EU platform regulation.
Deadline: 7 January 2024.
Link: werkenbij.vu.nl/ad/phd-candida…

Next January, I will be teaching a course at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Faculty of Law VU on what you might call “Law & Technology & Economics.” This is incredibly exciting for me. I will be introducing students to innovation economics, ecosystem theory, digital competition law, the DMA, but also AI…

New version of one of our working papers. Get it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I just published the revised version of my article now entitled “Bridging Disciplines with Complexity Science: W. Brian Arthur’s Impact on Economics, Law, Institutions, and Beyond” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. You will find more insights dealing with institutional economics.