A Chicago-School Island in the Ordo-liberal Sea? The Hungarian Competition Office’s Relaxed Treatment of Abuse of Dominance Cases

Abstract

The paper presents and evaluates the impact of the ‘more economic’ approach of the Hungarian Competition Office’s decisional practice as to predatory pricing, margin squeeze and refusal to deal under Hungarian competition law. It compares the Hungarian practice with the more formalistic approach of the CJEU’s jurisprudence. The paper evaluates the Hungarian decisional practice in abuse cases and provides a brief assessment on the consequences of applying diverging standards in EU and national abuse of dominance law.

Keywords

• article 102 tfeu
• dominant position
• hungarian competition law
• margin squeeze
• predatory pricing
• price squeeze
• refusal to deal