The Industry Commission's Information Paper on Merger Regulation (henceforth referred to simply as 'the Information Paper' contains numerous errors of fact, law and analysis. My goal here is not to examine these in detail (a task already well accomplished by Warwick Anderson, Tim Grimwade, Jill Walker and Luke Woodward in a forthcoming paper in the Competition and Consumer Law Journal) but rather to explore some of the central themes in the Industry Commission's Paper.
A review by Henry Ergas of the Industry Commission's information paper on merger regulation. Competition and Consumer Law Journal... more. (pdf, size 68kb)