Economic principles for the enforcement of abuse of dominance provisions

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  • Fumagalli C, Motta M. Economic principles for the enforcement of abuse of dominance provisions. J Compet Law Econ. 2024;20(1-2):85-107. DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhae003

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  • Resum

    The European Commission (EC) has recently announced its intention to issue Guidelines on exclusionary abuses. In this paper, we explain how economics can and should be used to inform a sound and effects-based approach in the enforcement of Article 102 TFEU. In particular, the EC should be guided only by a consumer welfare standard; exclusive dealing and exclusivity rebates should be subject to a (rebuttable) presumption of harm; price-cost tests are meaningful only for predation and other practices that do not reference rivals; essentiality of the input should not be a requirement for vertical foreclosure cases of any type, but such cases should be limited only to dominant firms that satisfy certain criteria.
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