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Four cases in sports competition policy: baseball, judo, football, and motor racing

Budzinski, Oliver - 2017

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial activities are involved. From an economic perspective, this implies that both directly commercial activities like the sale of broadcasting/media rights and indirectly...

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The competition economics of financial fair play

Budzinski, Oliver - 2014

This paper provides an economic analysis of the competition effects of UEFA's financial fair play regulations. It concludes that the restrictive effects of the break-even rule cannot be justified by a legitimate objective defense (according to European competition policy) because significant...

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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case : unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control

Budzinski, Oliver (contributor); … - 2007

An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis … application of these sophisticated economic tools by the EU and US authorities so far. This makes an in-depth study of the case …. Therefore, we highlight certain similarities as well as (minor) differences between the EU and US proceedings. Interestingly …

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European Media Markets : Competition, Media Bias and Cultural Diversity (Europäische Medienmärkte: Wettbewerb, Meinungsvielfalt und Kulturelle Vielfalt)

Budzinski, Oliver - 2010

The papers analyses the emergence of an European media regulation, predominantly through competition policy institutions. Next to ‘narrow’ competition considerations, issues of media bias and cultural diversity are put into focus. Modern media economics views media markets involving issues...

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In the light of dynamic competition : should we make merger remedies more flexible?

Bougette, Patrice; Budzinski, Oliver; Marty, Frédéric - 2023

EU permits some flexibility with less restrictive remedies, we conceptually advance the design elements of a dual …

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Towards a Differentiated Analysis of Competition of Competition Laws

Kerber, Wolfgang - 2009

Can competition of competition laws be a feasible concept that should play an important role in an international order for the worldwide protection of competition? The authors will introduce four different types of regulatory competition that allow for a more differentiated analysis of...

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The (Monetary) Value of Competitive Balance for Sport Consumers : A Stated Preferences Approach to European Professional Football

Pawlowski, Tim - 2012

Ever since the pioneering work of Rottenberg (1956) and Neale (1964), the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis (UOH) has played a major role in the economic analysis of professional sport leagues. However, decades of empirical research have not been successful in establishing clear evidence for the...

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(Sports) economics upside down? - a comment on the Advocate General opinion in European Super League versus UEFA/FIFA

Budzinski, Oliver - 2023

This comment addresses the opinion of the Advocate General (AG) of the European Court of Justice on the pending case European Super League versus UEFA/FIFA. It takes a critical perspective on selected aspects of the opinion’s reasoning from a (sports) economics perspective. Highlighting the...

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Should organizing premier-level European football be a monopoly? : and who should run it? - an economists' perspective

Budzinski, Oliver; Feddersen, Arne - 2022

The controversy around the breakaway European Super League, set to conquer the UEFA Champions League, and the surrounding antitrust proceedings revive the academic discussion about the monopoly power of sport-internal governing bodies (like the UEFA), the justification for and limits of their...

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Dynamic competition, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, and article 102 TFEU : towards a concept of systemic market power?

Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2024

In this paper, we comment on the debate about guidelines for Art. 102 TFEU in the face of the challenges brought by digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of...

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