A Senate enquiry has found both suppliers and customers of our supermarkets are struggling. Regulators have to find a way to rebalance the market, which doesn’t make these groups bear the cost.
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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.
Making a jet airline succeed hinges on three key factors – market scale, airport access, and geography. Australia offers new entrants a brutal starting ground on all three.
The Challengers fuses sex and sport to explore our competitive instincts.
The high-profile Indian startup is under pressure from rivals at home and is also preparing to list on the stock exchange.
The government’s proposed merger reforms put the experts in charge. They will allow the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to be the decision-maker, not the courts.
Proposed toughening of the food and grocery code of conduct is long overdue. However, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will need to be well resourced to properly regulate the sector.
Loyalty schemes can significantly undermine firms’ ability to identify and target their competitors’ customers.
Wall Street and big law firms are famous for their hard-charging, cutthroat work cultures. Here’s one reason they should reconsider.
The Department of Justice will have to prove that Apple’s ‘closed’ platforms have hurt rather than helped its customers.
The new retail giant will control more than 26% of the Australian pharmacy market.
Woolworths promoted itself as a place where “goods are so cheap and shopping easy and pleasant” when it opened 100 years ago. Australia’s biggest grocer has moved away from its humble beginnings.
Each of these tricks is old, but each has been supercharged by the use of information technology.
Given the unique demands and pressures of competing in elite sport environments, it is imperative that we pay attention to elite youth athletes’ mental health needs.
Pressure for greater transparency by food producers and retailers about costs is increasing as rising grocery prices hit the hip pocket.
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.
Horses naturally synchronise their running in groups – but ‘racing’ and ‘winning’ are human concepts.
From restrictions on EU exports to China and Chinese exports to the EU to freezing key investments, there are many ways in which China could retaliate against the EU’s anti-dumping investigation.
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.
Why is the $50 million going to the government and not to those who overpaid for bread? The answer is complicated.
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Professor, Monash University
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Competition Lawyer; Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
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Senior research associate, University of Sydney
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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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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Finance, RMIT University
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Victoria University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Victoria 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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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Clinical Research Manager, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, UJ, University of Johannesburg
