Is the Revenue Allocation Scheme of Formula One Motor Racing a Case for European Competition Policy?

Budzinski, Oliver; Müller-Kock, Anika

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“…5. For more details on the commercial structure of F1 see Budzinski and Müller-Kock (2018), and generally on market-internal financial regulation in sports see Budzinski (2018). 6.…”

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“…Addressing competition issues in F1, Cygan (2007) and Budzinski (2012) discuss the antitrust implications of the FIA case from the late 1990s (the European Commission alleged an abuse of dominance by F1's governing body, the FIA). Budzinski and Müller-Kock (2018) analyze antitrust allegations relating to the financial system and revenue distribution model of F1. They find indications of both an abuse of market power by the commercial rights holder and a collusive equilibrium between the governing bodies and the leading teams.…”

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“…5. For more details on the commercial structure of F1 see Budzinski and Müller-Kock (2018), and generally on market-internal financial regulation in sports see Budzinski (2018). 6.…”

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“…The second reasoning sensitively depends on the design of the actual redistribution mechanisms that a football league chooses to implement. This can improve financial balance among the competing teams but this is not an automatism (inter alia, Budzinski 2018; Budzinski & Müller-Kock 2018). Al-together, the competitive balance defense used to be a popular reasoning in favor of centralized marketing but it has lost much of its appeal recently.…”

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How Does Online Streaming Affect Antitrust Remedies to Centralized Marketing? The Case of European Football Broadcasting Rights

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract:The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed if it complies with a number of conditions and obligations, inter alia, partial unbundling and the no-single-buyer rule.These regulations were defined with traditional TV-markets in mind. However, the landscape of audiovisual broadcasting is quickly changing with online streaming services gaining popularity and relevance. This also alters the effects of the conditions and obligations for the centralized marketing arrangements. Partial unbundling may lead to increasing instead of decreasing prices for consumers. Moreover, the combination of partial unbundling and the no-single-buyer rule forces consumers into multiple subscriptions to several streaming services, which increases transaction costs. Consequently, competition authorities need to rethink the conditions and obligations they impose on centralized marketing arrangements in football. We recommend restricting the exclusivity of (live-)broadcasting rights and mandate third-party access to program guide information to redesign the remedies.

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“…An operations-research paper by Bekker and Lotz (2009) Addressing competition issues in Formula One, Cygan (2007) and discuss the antitrust implications of the so-called FIA case (the European Commission alleged an abuse of dominance by F1s governing body FIA) from the late 1990s. Budzinski and Müller-Kock (2018) analyze antitrust allegations with respect to the financial system and revenue distribution model of F1. They find indication for an abuse of market power by the commercial rights holder as well as for a collusive equilibrium between the governing bodies and the leading teams.…”

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Measuring Competitive Balance in Formula One Racing

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Feddersen

2019

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The Formula One Championship (F1) is one of the biggest sports businesses in the world. But, however, it seems to astonish that only very few scholarly articles analyze the F1 business. The aim of this study is to contribute to closing two gaps in the existing literature: it contributes (1) to the (sports) economic analysis of the F1 business and (2) to the literature on competitive balance in non-team sports. Like competitive balance in team sport leagues, also for F1 racing three dimensions can be distinguished: (a) race-specific competitive balance, (b) within-season competitive balance, and (c) between-season competitive balance. In addition to classical tools and data, some new and F1 specific indicators, like average lead changes or leading distance, are employed. Also, pitfalls induced especially by the used data source or calculation method are highlighted.

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Is the Revenue Allocation Scheme of Formula One Motor Racing a Case for European Competition Policy?

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Measuring competitive balance in Formula One racing

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