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Competition Policy and the Competition Policy Review
Author(s) -
King Stephen P.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12134
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , competition policy , politics , rest (music) , political science , process (computing) , economics , business , public administration , market economy , computer science , law , medicine , ecology , cardiology , welfare , biology , operating system
Australia's 1990s competition reforms were a model for the rest of the world. But since 2005, these reforms have stalled. The 2015 Competition Policy Review Final Report details an agenda and a process to restart competition policy reform. The strength of the Final Report is its breadth. In particular, it considers the reform of human services in detail. The Final Report's weakness, however, is its failure to address the political barriers to reform and its lack of alternative implementation strategies.