Complexity-Minded Antitrust

• Department of Law

The EUI Competition Law Working Group hosts a discussion with Competition Law Professor, Nicolas Petit and Thibault Schrepel on their recent paper.

Complexity science is widely used across the policy spectrum but not in antitrust. This is unfortunate. Complexity science enables a rich understanding of competition beyond the simplistic descriptions of markets and firms proposed by neoclassical models and their contemporary neo-Brandeisian critique. Many novel insights can be gained by supporting more openness to some of its key teachings, like feedback loops and the role of uncertainty. The present article lays down the building blocks of a complexity-minded antitrust method. 

The Competition Law Working Group is a forum where EUI members and external researchers working on antitrust law and economics issues present and discuss their research and interact with other scholars. All interested fellows, PhD researchers, professors and visiting academics are invited to participate.

The Zoom link and the paper will be circulated upon registration.