Thursday, 21 December 2023

The clock ran out

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This week's 'mini Budget' was certainly down the minier end of mini, and understandably so. While I sympathise with a bias for a...
Friday, 1 December 2023

Competition and the coalition of chaos

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Sounds like a Harry Potter movie doesn't it, and I couldn't resist using it as a title even though, for all the critical "coali...
Thursday, 7 September 2023

Here we go again

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On August 23 the Aussie Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers in a joint release with the Assistant Minister for Competition Dr Andrew Leigh announced ...
Thursday, 31 August 2023

Coordinating in the dark

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While laid up at home with a very belated case of Covid - we're okay, thanks for asking - I thought I'd use the downtime to read the...
Wednesday, 23 August 2023

CLPINZ 2023

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 After a rapid scramble to reorganise the schedule following the last minute loss of the planned keynote speaker, the 34th annual workshop o...
Friday, 4 August 2023

Don't forget the benefits

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Scrutiny of mergers is on the increase, notably in the US, where new draft merger guidelines have been widely interpreted as a sign of a mo...
Wednesday, 5 April 2023

The RBB Economics conference is back

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After the Covid-induced hiatus since its 2019 conference , RBB Economics got back on track last week with its traditional face to face confe...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Stick it to them

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Our Commerce Commission has just hosted the International Competition Network's annual cartel workshop , on the nowadays typical hybrid ...