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The new law targeting supermarket prices will be tough to apply. But it does put the big supermarkets on notice that their pricing practices are being watched.
The cases against Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon could profoundly shape the future of global technology.
A push to overhaul laws to stamp out land banking is part of a Government bid to crack down on anti-competitive and unconscionable conduct by supermarkets.
South Africa’s use of competition law to achieve socio-economic objectives is justified, but its implementation lacks coherence and adds undue costs for companies.
Sustainability extends far beyond the environment. But one of its most important pillars – social – has been left out of proposed guidelines for responsible business collaborations.
The Emerson review could have recommended binding arbitration and giving courts the power to force supermarket chains to divest stores, but what it has recommended will put the big chains on notice.
Canada’s ongoing economic malaise and decline in living standards are rooted in a constellation of domestic and global challenges.
The ACCC has prioritised getting timely compensation to affected customers over pursuing the airline on the more serious charge of collecting fees for no service.
All proposed mergers above a yet-to-be-determined threshold will have to be reported to the ACCC. It’ll have to give a yes or no within 30 days.
Andrew Leigh joins us to talk about longer-term economic outlook, reforms to made to the system and the need to increase competition and our flat-lined productivity.
Governments around the world keep filing antitrust lawsuits against the ‘big four’ tech companies. Here’s why that matters for everyone who uses their products.
If the CMA concludes the partnership is in fact a merger, it will start looking into whether this has reduced competition.
A small set of changes to competition law were just passed as the second part of Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act.
If the competition regulator gets its way, it could force significant changes to the online shopping giant.
Enforcement agencies like the Competition Bureau have a duty to pursue cases they consider to be well-founded and in the public interest. But it’s unrealistic to expect they will win every time.
As Canada embarks on its post-pandemic economic recovery, policymakers must ensure economic resilience and inclusiveness while preventing existing monopoly issues from worsening.
Faced with a Germany-led coalition seeking to ban internal-combustion-engine car sales from 2035, the EU needs to stay firm on its core economic principles.
The UK must refocus its efforts to attract investment post-Brexit, but here’s why it’s still ‘open for business’.
The Rogers-Shaw decision is proving to be a legally significant case for Canada by setting a precedent that might make merger challenges harder in the future.
Top contributors
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor & Vice-Dean Research, Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Competition Lawyer; Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor Allan Fels, Professor of Law, Economics and Business at the University of Melbourne and Monash University., The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Centre for Competition, Regulation & Economic Development, UJ, and at SOAS University of London; advisor Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, University of Johannesburg
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, Monash University
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Transport and Logistics Network Modelling, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in the Department of Mercantile and Labour Law, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University