“Me first!” or Why The Bundeskartellamt Approach in the Hotel Platform Cases Is an Unfortunate Precedent
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Christoph Stadler
Abstract
This paper offers a critique of the December 2013 prohibition order of the Bundeskartellamt in the HRS hotel platform case. It discusses the FCO’s market investigation, its definition of the relevant market, its theory of harm as well as its assessment of efficiencies. The paper argues that, from a policy point of view, the FCO’s approach of issuing prohibition orders against HRS and Booking.com in the absence of adequate co-ordination with other competition authorities in the EU, is not a model to be followed in the ECN.
Abstract
“Me first!” or Why The Bundeskartellamt Approach in the Hotel Platform Cases Is an Unfortunate Precedent
This paper offers a critique of the December 2013 prohibition order of the Bundeskartellamt in the HRS hotel platform case. It discusses the FCO’s market investigation, its definition of the relevant market, its theory of harm as well as its assessment of efficiencies. The paper argues that, from a policy point of view, the FCO’s approach of issuing prohibition orders against HRS and Booking.com in the absence of adequate co-ordination with other competition authorities in the EU, is not a model to be followed in the ECN.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Cover
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Veranstaltungshinweise
- Aufsätze
- “Me first!” or Why The Bundeskartellamt Approach in the Hotel Platform Cases Is an Unfortunate Precedent
- Das vertragliche Verbot der Abwerbung von Mitarbeitern zwischen Unternehmen im Spannungsfeld von Kartellrecht, Handelsrecht und Lauterkeitsrecht
- Doppelpreissysteme: Ausgewählte Rechts- und Anwendungsfragen zur Entscheidungspraxis des Bundeskartellamtes
- Das Verhältnis von Kartellrecht und Sportschiedsgerichtsbarkeit
- Buchrezension
- Impressum
Articles in the same Issue
- Cover
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Veranstaltungshinweise
- Aufsätze
- “Me first!” or Why The Bundeskartellamt Approach in the Hotel Platform Cases Is an Unfortunate Precedent
- Das vertragliche Verbot der Abwerbung von Mitarbeitern zwischen Unternehmen im Spannungsfeld von Kartellrecht, Handelsrecht und Lauterkeitsrecht
- Doppelpreissysteme: Ausgewählte Rechts- und Anwendungsfragen zur Entscheidungspraxis des Bundeskartellamtes
- Das Verhältnis von Kartellrecht und Sportschiedsgerichtsbarkeit
- Buchrezension
- Impressum
