The criminalisation of anti-competitive behaviour such as price fixing has long been a feature of US antitrust law. Some European countries have introduced criminal penalties for price fixing while in others the matter is under debate. Australia introduced such laws in 2009. Of critical...

The criminalization of serious cartel conduct faces many practical and operational challenges, and no doubt the first criminal case will be strongly opposed. A crucial early task is to identify the bright line between cartel conduct that is criminal and that which is not.

Bob Baxt, the third chairman of the Trade Practices Commission, served for a single three-year term from 1988 to 1991. He followed Bob McComas, who had deliberately adopted a non-litigious approach to preserving the competitive process. Baxt was far more proactive and sought to push the...

The 1965 legislation to curb restrictive trade practices has been widely regarded as weak. By contrast, the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) has been considered as providing the platform for a more comprehensive competition policy. This paper argues that the 1965-67 and 1971 Acts were more...

Given the dynamic nature of the web search engine market, it is clear that a player’s dominance depends on its innovation activity relative to others. Manish Agarwal & David Round (Univ. of South Australia)