Merger on the Dancefloor: Partners Elizabeth Avery and Simon Muys with the latest on the merger reform debate The Competitive Edge

Partners Elizabeth Avery and Simon Muys take us through the latest on the merger reform debate, how the ACCC's position has evolved and how its package deal might be unbundled.  

Plus time is a flat circle with supermarket inquiries and the cozzie livs, disrupting the Chocolate Cartel with Willy Dubs, expensive typos from Mariner I to the latest real estate scams, and dance hall revivals from West Ham to "No Whyalla Wipeout".  

All this and more AI fingers with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge Podcast. 




The great dance hall merger of 1926 via Trove 



Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year for 2023 



Cost of living and supermarket price inquiries from Prof Allan Fels, the Senate Select Committee, and Dr Craig Emerson 



Skyhooks, "Horror Movie" for no particular reason 



Justus Haucap & Christina Heldman, "On the sociology of cartels", European Journal of Law and Economics (2023) 56:289-323 



The most expensive hyphen in history and a fairly expensive "s" 



Elizabeth and Simon on merger reform in the AFR 



Submissions to Treasury on merger reform from the ACCC (1 2 3) and the Law Council of Australia (1 2) 



The Tech team on deepfakes and Peter Waters on AI in the law 



Nadia Buttendorf's FINGERring vs Sam Kerr in the AFR.  



Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 



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