Competition policy in Australia is undermined by not knowing if it is right to let the vast majority of corporate mergers go ahead.
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The government should consider five options to increase economic growth.
A recent legal case illustrates why the government has made a mistake in changing its market misuse law.
The government will adopt an “effects” test to combat anti-competitive behaviour. It should ensure meaningful penalties are attached.
The Australian government yesterday announced it intends to repeal parallel importation restrictions on books, which has again caused concern in the publishing industry. But, really, what’s the problem?
The government has agreed to the Harper competition review recommendation on parallel imports on books, but there’s still a long way to go on IP reform.
The response to the Harper recommendations on competition policy reform was mature and wisely sidestepped the issue that could derail debate on it.
Ian Harper made a bunch of less glamourous but very useful recommendations in his competition review, that deserve not to be overshadowed.
The proposed changes to Australia’s competition regime make sense, and deserve bipartisan support.
The new Turnbull government should follow the lead of the Harper Review and introduce an ‘effects’ test on market power.
Unless key words are clarified proposed changes to Australian competition law could actually harm competition.
Current regulations are a complete mismatch for today’s media practices and structures. While politicians shy from the debate, it’s time to heed public opinion and revisit the Finkelstein Report.
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.
The same forces of disruption that are changing industries and economies around the world are now having a discernible effect on Australian politics – and that’s bad news for the major parties.
Supermarket giants are predictably opposed to
Harper Review’s effects test, but the report is a mixed bag when it comes to other retail competition issues.
The main question to ask of the Harper report is: what will make a tangible difference to our economic prosperity?
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…
The “effects test” aims to boost prosecutions for misuse of market power. But will it really make it easier for the ACCC to win cases?
Top contributors
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Former Adjunct Professor, Australian National University
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Competition Lawyer; Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, Department of Economics, Monash University
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Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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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, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor in Transport and Logistics Network Modelling, University of Sydney
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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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Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University