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The inaugural chair of the ACCC says Gina Cass-Gottlieb’s experience opposing the ACCC in court will prove invaluable, and that it’s time to appoint a lawyer as chair.
Takeover bids for Australia’s last listed energy network companies suggest these monopolies are charging way more than necessary.
Just because a tech company has a big share of the market doesn’t mean it has the power to keep it.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is lightening up on its normal competition rules and allowing competitors to cooperate.
Unsolicited market proposals are not transparently assessed. Infrastructure should be built to serve the public interest, not shaped by its private backers, but the checks to ensure this are broken.
Governments can do more to expose the deceptive corporate practice of charging loyal customers more, says competition champion Allan Fels.
Competition policy in Australia is undermined by not knowing if it is right to let the vast majority of corporate mergers go ahead.
Calls to boycott supermarket-branded milk are misguided; and a royal commission into treatment of dairy farmers would be money wasted.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s 2015 decision to allow a hazardous waste monopoly in B.C. gave life to long-dormant provisions in the Competition Act that make preventing monopolies more difficult.
Energy firms should compete over the ‘stickiest’ customers, who won’t switch suppliers.
Headlines pointed to the privatisation of hospital, end-of-life and dental services, but the Productivity Commission’s report is actually a lot less radical.
South Africa’s concentrated formal supermarket industry stands as an obstacle against economic transformation and competitive pricing for consumers.
The government should consider five options to increase economic growth.
In a major victory for small business and the Nationals over big business, the government has agreed to write an ‘effects test’ into competition policy.
Fear of a Foxtel-Ten partnership to acquire sporting rights is likely to worry the ACCC.
Both big and small business have much at stake in competition policy reform, but they need to move on from simplistic arguments about misuse of market power.
The competition review could help shed light on whether Australian companies are willing to share the data they hold on us as consumers.
Big reforms in taxation and competition policy are on the table for the Abbott government, but has it spent too much political capital to get any of them across the line?
The removal of restrictions on retail trading hours, pharmacies and parallel imports, and a controversial “effects test” on existing misuse of market power rules are among the many recommendations contained…
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Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Competition Lawyer; Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, Department of Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
