The Manifestation of the Abuse of Dominant Position in the Current Romanian Economy

Melinda Cenușe () and Adrian David ()
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Melinda Cenușe: University of Petrosani, Romania
Adrian David: University of Petrosani, Romania

Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics, 2011, vol. 11, issue 2, 63-70

Abstract: The abuse use of a dominant position constitutes an important form of manifestation of anti-competitive practices. Almost all competition laws have some provisions on the abuse of dominant position. Most European laws, including the one of the European Union, contain an express provision prohibiting the abuse of dominant position. However, they rarely include a definition of what constitutes abuse of dominant position, but most of them pass in review examples of behaviors that may be considered illegal. In countries with a developed market economy, the legal provisions regarding abuse of dominant position were not so important and so widely used as the provisioning governing mergers and the cartel behavior. The explanation is that in a developed economy, the markets are larger, firms are more numerous, and the entry on the market is relatively easy. As a result, there are few markets where a firm with a dominant position can exercise its market influence for longer periods without new entries being attracted. For this study we decided to present the most famous cases involving the abuse of dominant position registered on Romanian market of mobile phones in 2011 and sanctioned by the Romanian Competition Council.

Keywords: economy; market; the dominant position; the abuse of dominant power; monopoly; monopolistic firms; legislation; Competition Council (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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