Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act provides a mechanism by which third party access can be mandated to facilities such as rail links. This paper examines what it is that Part IIIA might be doing from an economic perspective, and what that tells us about when mandated third party access might...

The Merger Guidelines released in March 2008 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) provide a guide to the analytical approach the ACCC intends to adopt to assessing mergers for the purposes of s.50 of the Trade Practices Act. The new Guidelines do a relatively good job in...