Diverging but Increasingly Converging: The U.S. Supreme Court in linkLine A European Perspective

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Peter Alexiadis, Anthony Shortall, Apr 15, 2009

In a nutshell, the question is whether it is correct to consider that a margin squeeze simply consists, as the U.S. Supreme Court holds in linkLine, in an evaluation of a predatory pricing action (at the retail level) and a duty to deal (at the wholesale level), or whether it should constitute a stand-alone antitrust offence short of a mandatory obligation to deal and/or predation fin