미국 경쟁법상 이윤압착(margin squeeze)에 대한 규제 동향 분석 = A Study on Jurisprudence and Precedents of a Margin Squeeze under the U.S. Antitrust Law

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A margin squeeze can occur when an upstream firm sells an input for which there are no good economic substitutes to firms against which the upstream firm also competes in the downstream market. It arises where the margin between the downstream retail price and the wholesale price charged for an input is too small to allow a firm to survive as a retail competitor. This kind of business practice has been recently witnessed even in korean IT industries.
The US Supreme Court has specifically addressed only margin squeezes by an integrated firm that has no duty under antitrust law to deal with its downstream rivals. The Court ruled that in such cases US antitrust law does not recognize margin squeezes as a standalone form of anti-competitive abuse.
Nevertheless, there has been a general appraisal that a margin squeeze under the US antitrust law has been dealt with an flexible angle of regulation than that under the EU competition law. It may be the reason why analyses on the US antitrust law have been comparatively rare than on EU law.
In this consideration, this paper tries to examine jurisprudence, regulation trends and legal precedents on a margin squeeze mainly in the US antitrust law. And it makes some comparison to EU competition law as a conclusion.

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