What Harris chooses to do if she wins is “very important,” said Josh Tzuker, a former antitrust official at the Department of Justice, who joined the consulting firm FGS Global earlier this year. Those include former Biden National Economic Council director Brian Deese, who is advising Harris on economic policy; and Bharat Ramamurti, formerly Deese’s deputy at the NEC and …
The market power of Australia's largest firms has grown in the last two decades, and price mark-ups have increased. Key points: Large firms are increasingly dominating Australia's economy They are using their market power to increase prices Competition policy needs to refocus on the consequences of market concentration Andrew Leigh, the federal Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities, and Treasury, will …
The reluctance of digital/technology companies to invest time and resources to navigate an uncertain regulatory landscape is more to be blamed than the FDI policy itself. The new Foreign Direct Investment policy prevents online marketplaces from holding any equity interest and control over inventories through related companies that sell on their platform to avoid vertical foreclosure and exclusivity. Even Competition …
'Antitrust laws … are the Magna Carta of free enterprise. Another study was known as Monopolies Inquiry Commission appointed under the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952 to enquire into the extent and effects of concentration of economic power in private hands and the prevalence of monopolistic and restrictive trade practices in important sectors of economic activity other than agriculture with …