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Traders in the informal economy need a supportive ecosystem so they can move beyond survival and contribute to local growth and development.
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.
Prices are up to five times higher than the raw costs of production for many of the goods and services we all need.
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.
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.
Top contributors
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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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Competition Lawyer; Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, Department of Economics, Monash University
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Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, Monash University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Economics and Theology., Alphacrucis College
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology