The eleventh ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference was held on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th July 2010 at the Holiday Inn, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The theme for the conference was Market Structures Revisited. This theme allowed us to take another look at the pros and cons of vertical integration versus separation, and the associated regulatory issues.
International speakers included:
Professor Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Harvard University
Professor Martin Cave, Director, Centre for Management under Regulation, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Karl-Heinz Neumann, General Manager and Director, WIK
Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation and Director of Loyola de Palacio Energy Policy Programme
Alberto Heimler, Professor Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (School of Public Administration, Rome). Formerly the Central Director for Research and International Affairs, Italian Competition Authority (Roma)
Topics discussed included:
Vertical Unbundling: The Experience Across Industries
Structural Design for Effective Competition
Expectations and Outcomes: National Competition Policy and Infrastructure Reforms fifteen years on
How much discretion should a regulator have?
Locational Signals for Generation and the Role for Transmission
Energy: Deregulating Natural Monopolies: The Role of Private Contracts
Communications: Structural Models for NBN Deployment
Water: Urban and Rural Water Markets – looking beyond a single source of supply
Papers/Presentations for the 2010 Regulatory Conference
