Transport and Infrastructure Major Publications

Address to Lloyd’s List Events Conference, Melbourne

This volume has sprung from concerns about the Access Provisions (Part IIIA) of the Trade Practices Act. It comprises two pieces of research, which analyse these provisions from a legal and an economic perspective.

Compared to public transport, people find cars to be more convenient and lower cost.

Energy Issues Paper Number 37

Address to the Australian Energy Summit

The key issue in privatising infrastructure, and arguably the reason for it to be in public ownership, is the concern about natural monopoly. A monopolist is able to extract high prices by reducing availability of supply or access. This concern about “price gouging” and wasted supply is of long standing.