Regulation, industry structure and market power conference (31 July - 1 August 2003)
Location
Sea World Nara Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland
Conference details
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is hosting its fourth conference on key regulatory issues of national significance, focussing on "Regulation, Industry Structure and Market Power".
The 2 day conference will feature international and local speakers representing industry, consumers, academia, consulting firms and government. This year's speakers include:
Professor David Newbery, Director of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge
Professor Roger Noll, Economics Department, Stanford University
Dr Richard O'Neill, Chief Economic Adviser, US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Conference will present the work of a range of experts in analysing utility industries and in regulatory design and evaluation. It will consider trends in regulatory practice in Australia, the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
Particular topics to be discussed this year include:
measuring and mitigating market power in utility industries
sources and leveraging of market power in regulated industries
separation: accounting and structural approaches
key structural and market power issues in electricity, gas, telecommunications and rail will be debated in industry-specific sessions.
Papers
Measuring and Mitigating Market Power in Utility Industries
