Self-Preferencing and Competitive Damages: A Focus on Exploitative Abuses

Patrice Bougette (), Oliver Budzinski and Frédéric Marty
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Patrice Bougette: GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur

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Abstract: Conceived as a theory of competitive harm, self-preferencing has been at the core of recent European landmark cases (e.g., Google Android, Google Shopping). In the context of EU competition law, beyond the anticompetitive leveraging effect, self-preferencing may lead to vertical and horizontal exclusionary abuses, encourage exploitation abuses, and generate economic dependence abuses. In this paper, we aim at characterizing the various forms of self-preferencing, investigating platforms' capacity and incentives to do so through their dual role, by shedding light on the economic assessment of these practices in an effects-based approach. We analyze the different options for remedies in this context, by insisting on their necessity, adequacy, and proportionality.

Keywords: Self-preferencing; antitrust; regulation; European Union competition law; exploitative abuse; Digital Markets Act (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-03-22
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Published in Antitrust Bulletin, inPress, pp.0003603X2210827. ⟨10.1177/0003603X221082757⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221082757

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