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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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The institutional framework for doing sports business: principles of EU competition policy in sports markets

Budzinski, Oliver - 2012

The competition rules and policy framework of the European Union represents an important institutional restriction for doing sports business. Driven by the courts, the 2007 overhaul of the approach and methodology has increased the scope of competition policy towards sports associations and...

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Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature?

Budzinski, Oliver; Szymanski, Stefan - 2014

In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the sports association merely representing an...

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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 emergence of a market for football stars : talent development and competitive balance in European football

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Olsson, Martin; Persson, Lars - 2016

bidding competition over star players after the Bosman ruling has spurred talent development foremost in EU nations lacking …

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The institutional framework for doing sports business : principles of EU competition policy in sports markets

Budzinski, Oliver - 2011

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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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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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How does online streaming affect antitrust remedies to centralized marketing? : the case of European football broadcasting rights

Budzinski, Oliver; Gänßle, Sophia; … - 2019

The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed if it complies with a number of conditions and obligations, inter alia, partial unbundling and the no-single-buyer rule. These regulations were defined with traditional...

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Market-internal financial regulation in sports as an anticompetitive institution

Budzinski, Oliver - 2017

Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against "financial doping". Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may anticompetitively...

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