Misuse of market power is both a legal and economic concept. Prohibitions on the misuse of market power are commonly found in anti-trust laws in a number of countries and the prohibition appears as section 46 in Australia's Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA). Using predatory pricing as an example, this Research Note argues that, since...

The aim of this note is to outline some of the deregulatory issues that have occurred in recent years outside the dominant National Electricity Market (NEM) of New South Wales and Victoria. The NEM comprises New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, Queensland, South Australia and following the completion of the Basslink interconnector, Tasmania. The focus...

This final report of an AHURI research project addresses questions raised on the future environment for housing policy, labour markets, housing markets and the shifting metropolitan balance. It is specifically concerned with the spatial implications of socio-demographic and economic change on the two major housing tenures: viz, home ownership and private rental.

Globalisation represents a lot of different things to a lot of people: parliamentarians, journalists, academics, business leaders and bureaucrats among them. This paper identifies and analyses key questions about globalisation, giving special emphasis to its particular implications for the Asia-Pacific region and for Australia.

This report examines the implications of full retail competition in a dereguated electricity market, suggesting that there will be redlining or market exclusion of vulnerable households.