The sixth ACCC regulatory conference Relationship between essential facilities and downstream markets was held on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 July 2005 at the Holiday Inn Hotel on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia.

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Conference program

2005 Regulatory Conference program ( PDF 53.82 KB )

Conference papers and presentation slides

Session Presentations
Session 1: Relationships Between Essential Facilities and Downstream Markets

Janusz Ordover - Access design - slides ( PDF 63.22 KB )

Janusz Ordover - Predatory pricing - slides ( PDF 97.99 KB )

Janusz Ordover - background paper ( PDF 2.8 MB )

Eames Conference - user perspective - presentation ( PDF 157.87 KB )

Session 2: Promoting Competition in Downstream Markets

John Mayo - Evolution of sabotage - slides ( PDF 4.06 MB )

Graeme Woodbridge - share price slide ( PDF 22.7 KB )

Session 2 - Rod Shogren paper ( PDF 40.32 KB )

Session 3: The nature of competition in retail markets

Catherine Waddams - Consumer choice and industrial policy - slides ( PDF 297.77 KB )

Joshua Gans - Road to Confusopoly - slides ( PDF 24.63 KB )

Joshua Gans - Network competition and churn - paper ( PDF 71.98 KB )

Joshua Gans - Protecting consumers - paper ( PDF 84.99 KB )

Geoff Swier - Nature of competition - paper ( PDF 201.95 KB )

Geoff Swier Nature of competition - slides ( PDF 677.14 KB )

Breakout session 1: Telecommunications: Content and infrastructure

Sean Williams - Ofcom's strategic review - slides ( PDF 186.78 KB )

Tom Hird - Exclusive Rights to Distribute Content - slides ( PDF 1.26 MB )

Stuart Simson - Infrastructure, content and our future - slides ( PDF 30.2 KB )

Breakout session 1: Water: Access to water and waste infrastructure assets

Alistair Watson - Competition and water - paper ( PDF 89.26 KB )

John Marsden - Third party access in water - slides ( PDF 284.86 KB )

Philip Williams - Access to wastewater transportation - slides ( PDF 131.47 KB )

Breakout session 2: Energy: Pricing practices in newly liberalised utility industries

Catherine Waddams - Pricing practices - slides ( PDF 221.64 KB )

Flavio Menezes - Electricity retail regulation - slides ( PDF 85.19 KB )

Andrew Bonwick - Pricing practices - slides ( PDF 48.12 KB )

Breakout session 2: Rail: Efficient Capacity Expansion in Rail Transport Bottlenecks

Russell Pittman - slides ( PDF 28.59 KB )

Russell Pittman - paper ( PDF 111.37 KB )

Fred Affleck - paper ( PDF 157.52 KB )

Fred Affleck - slides ( PDF 149.35 KB )

Darryl Biggar - paper ( PDF 171.82 KB )

Darryl Biggar - slides ( PDF 1.05 MB )

Session 4: Infrastructure and Export Markets

Philip Williams - The underlying logic - slides ( PDF 123.32 KB )

Jeff Balchin - discussion - slides ( PDF 91 KB )

Session 5: Reflections on the Conference

John Mayo - Lessons learned - slides ( PDF 5.01 MB )