Regulating supermarkets: the competition for space

Christopher Arup; Caron Beaton-Wells; Jo Paul Taylor

Regulating supermarkets: the competition for space

Christopher Arup, Caron Beaton-Wells, Jo Paul Taylor

Business Law & Taxation

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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the case for a proposed competition policy law reform. If implemented, the reform would roll back land-use planning regulation, so that supermarket businesses have greater freedom to regulate privately where and with what format they site their stores. With planning regulation reduced, the check on this greater freedom to site will be competition regulation; this regulation should also be light touch. Competition policy continues to insist that we shall be better off if public regulation defers to the market and private regulation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1035-1071
Number of pages	37
Journal	University of New South Wales Law Journal
Volume	40
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

supermarket siting
land-use planning
competition regulation

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Regulating Australia's retail grocery sector - goals, actors and techniques
Arup, C. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Beaton-Wells, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Dixon, J. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Merrett, D. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/15 → 31/12/18
Project: Research

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