Together with his colleagues from the Université Côte d’Azur, Patrice Bougette and Frédéric Marty, Oliver Budzinski (Economic Theory Group, TU Ilmenau) published new research in the peer-reviewed academic journal International Review of Law and Economics. “Ex-ante versus Ex-post in Competition Law Enforcement: Blurred Boundaries and Economic Rationale” (Vol. 82 (1), pp. 1-13) deals with the economic theory of competition law enforcement and provides economic rationales for designing competition rules and the corresponding enforcement institutions. Thus, it contributes to the ongoing discussions about the adequate institutional framework for the digital economy.
The paper continues a long-established and successful cooperation between Ilmenau and Côte d’Azur yielding already 6 previous journal publications, which are well cited in the contemporary literature:
- Bougette/Budzinski/Marty, In the Light of Dynamic Competition: Should We Make Merger Remedies More Flexible? European Competition Journal 21, 2025.
- Bruhn/Grebel/Nesta, The Fallacy in Productivity Decomposition, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 33(3), 2023, 797-835.
- Bougette/Budzinski/Marty, Self-Preferencing and Competitive Damages: A Focus on Exploitative Abuses, The Antitrust Bulletin 67(2), 2022, 190-207.
- Grebel/Napoletano/Nesta, Distant but Close in Sight: Firm-level Evidence on French–German Productivity Gaps in Manufacturing, Review of Income and Wealth 69(1), 2022, 228-261.
- Grebel/Nesta, Competition and Private R&D Investment, PLOS ONE 15(5), 2020, e0232119.
- Bougette/Budzinski/Marty, Exploitive Abuse and Abuse of Economic Dependence: What Can We Learn from an Industrial Organization Approach? Revue d'Economie Politique 129(2), 2019, 261-286.
Further papers and projects are in preparation.