Regulating for Competition? Trade Practices Policy in a Changing Economy

This volume is a record of the combined proceedings of a CIS conference held in Sydney on February 29, 1988, and an NZCIS conference held later in Auckland on March 7. Philip Williams, Daniel Oliver, Thomas G. Parry and Kerrin Vautier gave their papers at both conferences. The paper by W.R. McComas and the joint paper by John Logan, Frank Milne, and R.R. Officer were given at the Sydney conference, where commentaries were given by Warren Pengilley, Peter Swan. Geoffrey de Q. Walker and P.W. Gallagher. John Collinge and James Farmer gave their papers at the Auckland conference, where Allan Bollard and Stephen Jennings were commentators. Additional speakers participated in the panel discussions at both conferences; edited
versions of these discussions appear near the end of the volume.

I wish to thank all the participants for their help in compiling this record. I am especially grateful to Alan Moran for writing the Introduction, to Thomas DiLorcnzo for his paper ‘Antitrust Policy and Competitiveness’
(which appears here as an Appendix), and to Rose Philipson for her assistance in preparing the volume and compiling the index.

— Michael James