Holiday Inn Hotel on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia.
Conference details
The sixth ACCC regulatory conference was held on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 July 2005. The theme of the conference was the relationship between essential facilities and downstream markets.
International speakers included:
Professor Janusz Ordover, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, New York University, New York
Professor John Mayo, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Dr Russell Pittman, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, United States.
Topics discussed included:
Relationships between essential facilities and downstream markets
Promoting competition in downstream markets
Economics of sabotage and vertical integration
Content and infrastructure in telecommunications
Efficient capacity expansion in rail transport bottlenecks
Access to water and waste infrastructure
Development of downstream competition in energy markets.
