Project Outputs

Books, articles, papers, presentations, submissions and other outputs from the Cartel Project as at January 2012

Books

  • C Beaton-Wells and B Fisse, Australian Cartel Regulation: Law, Policy and Practice in an International Context, Cambridge University Press, 2011. To order a copy of Australian Cartel Regulation please click here.
  • C Beaton-Wells and A Ezrachi (Eds), Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement, Hart Publishing, 2011. For more information and to order a copy of Criminalising Cartels click here.

Book Chapters

  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Criminal Sanctions for Cartels - The Jury is Still Out' in A Ezrachi (ed) International Research Handbook in Competition Law, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2012, ch 9 (in press)
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Australia's Criminalisation of Cartels: Will It Be Contagious?' in C Beaton-Wells and A Ezrachi, Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement, Hart Publishing, 2011.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Cartel Criminalisation and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - Opportunities and Challenges', in C Beaton-Wells and A Ezrachi, Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement, Hart Publishing, 2011, p 183.
  • C Parker, 'Criminalisation and Compliance: The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality', published in C Beaton-Wells and A Ezrachi (eds), Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2011.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Australia's Criminalisation of Cartels: Will It Be Contagious?' in J Rexl et al (eds), More Common Ground for International Competition Law?, Academic Society for Competition Law Series, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2011, ch 9, p148.

Journal Articles

  • C Beaton-Wells and C Platania-Phung, 'Anti-Cartel Advocacy: How has the ACCC Fared?' (2011) Sydney Law Review 367.
  • C Parker and V L Nielsen, 'Deterrence and the Impact of Calculative Thinking on Business Compliance with Competition and Consumer Regulation', The Antitrust Bulletin, special issue on deterrence and cartel sanctions, (2011) 56(2) Antitrust Bulletin 377.
  • C Beaton-Wells and B Fisse, 'U.S. Policy and Practice in Pursuing Individual Accountability for Cartel Conduct: A Preliminary Critique', (2011) 56(2) Antitrust Bulletin 277.
  • C Beaton-Wells and B Fisse, 'The Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill (No 1) (Exposure Draft) - A Problematic Attempt to Prohibit Price Signalling' (2011) 39(1) Australian Business Law Review 28.
  • C Beaton-Wells and F Haines, 'The Australian Conversion: How the Case for Cartel Criminalisation Was Made' (2010) 1(4) New Journal of European Criminal Law 500. Copyright Intersentia 2011. You can link to New Journal of European Criminal Law here.
  • C Beaton-Wells and B Fisse, 'Broadening the Definition of Collusion: A Call for Caution' (2010) 38 Federal Law Review 71.
  • D Round and M Agarwal, The Criminalisation of Serious Cartel Conduct in Australia, (2010) The CPI Antitrust Journal May (1).
  • C Beaton-Wells and F Haines 'Making Cartel Conduct Criminal' (2009) 42(2) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 218.

Reports

  • C Parker and C Platania-Phung, 'The Deterrent Impact of Cartel Criminalisation: Supplementary Report on a Survey of Australian Public Opinion Regarding Business People's Views on Anti-Cartel Laws and Enforcement' (Report), 12 January 2012. The Report is available here.
  • C Parker, F Haines, J Kotey, J Nankivell and D Round, 'Report on Interviews with Civil Respondents in Cartel Cases' (Report), December 2011. The Report is available here.
  • C Beaton-Wells, F Haines, C Parker and C Platania-Phung, 'Report on a Survey of the Australian Public Regarding Anti-Cartel Law and Enforcement' (Report), December 2010. The Report is available here.

Conference Papers

  • F Haines, 'Ambiguities in Criminalising Business Conduct: Cartels as a Case Study' (2011), co-authored with Associate Professor Caron Beaton-Wells, paper presented to the Criminalization Conference, University of Stirling, 7-9 September 2011and to the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Four Points by Sheraton, Geelong, 28-30th September 2011.
  • C Parker, "The War on Cartels: A Micro Economic Sociology" presentation to Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2-5 June 2011.
  • F Haines and C Beaton-Wells, 'Law and Order in the Suites? Insights From Cartel Criminalisation in Australia', paper presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 12-14 April 2011.
  • C Beaton-Wells and D K Round (with F Haines), 'Cartel Criminalisation and the Competition Authority: Public Value, Authorising Environment, Operational Capability', paper presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 12-14 April 2011.
  • J Nankivell and C Parker, 'Researching Illegal Activity by Business', paper presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 12-14 April 2011.
  • C Parker and J Nankivell, 'Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? The Attempt to Criminalise Cartel Activity', paper presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 12-14 April 2011.
  • C Parker, "The War on Cartels: The Impossibility of Deterrence and Compliance?" presentation to RegNet@10: The Future of Regulation, 28-29 March 2011, (Regulatory Institutions Network 10th Anniversary Conference), Australian National University, Canberra, 28 March 2011, and to Melbourne Law School, Faculty Research Seminar, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 17 March 2011.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Australia's Criminalisation of Cartels: Will It Be Contagious?', Paper presented at 4th Annual ASCOLA conference, 16-17 June 2009, Washington DC.
  • C Parker, 'Criminalisation and Compliance: The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality' , Paper presented at Oxford Roundtable Criminalising Cartels: A Critical Interdisciplinary Workshop on an International Regulatory Movement, 12 November 2009, Oxford University, UK.

Other Presentations

  • C Beaton-Wells, and C Parker, "Deterring Cartels: Evidence about the Potential Impacts of Cartel Criminalisation" presentation to ACCC, 24 November 2011.
  • C Beaton-Wells and C Parker, "Cartel Criminalisation", presentation to Federal Court of Australia, 21 November 2011.
  • C Parker, "Blind Economics and the Criminalisation of Cartels", presentation to University of Miami Law Faculty Legal Theory Seminar Series, 28 October 2011.
  • C Parker, "'Processes Too Complicated to Explain'? Predicting the Impact of Criminalization of Serious Cartel Conduct in Australia", presentation to Criminology Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 24 October 2011.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Cartel Criminalisation: Testing the Rhetoric', presentation to Mallesons Stephen Jaques, 14 September 2011, Melbourne.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Cartel Criminalisation: Testing the Rhetoric', presentation to Freehills, 14 September 2011, Melbourne.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'The Cartel Criminalisation Bill - An Australian Perspective', presentation to Competition Law & Policy Institute of New Zealand annual workshop, 5 August 2011, Wellington, New Zealand.
  • C Parker, 'The War on Cartels: An Evaluation of the Impact of Criminalisation on Deterrence and Compliance', presentation to Centre for Regulatory Studies, Law faculty, Monash University, 22 July 2011, and to Monash Law Faculty Staff Seminar, 1 September 2011Melbourne.
  • C Beaton-Wells and C Parker, 'Cartel Criminalisation: A Survey of the Australian Public', presentation to the ACCC, 1 December 2010.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Cartel Criminalisation as Cultural Change: Findings of a Survey of Public Opinion in Australia', Presentation to Annual Cartels Workshop of the International Competition Network, 4-7 October 2010, Yokohama, Japan. You can link to the presentation slides here.
  • C Beaton-Wells and C Platania-Phung, 'Cartel Criminalisation: Findings of a Survey of Public Opinion in Australia', Presentation to Law Council of Australia Trade Practices Workshop, 20-22 August 2010, Queensland. The slides from the presentation are available here.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Australia's Cartel Law Reforms - Impetuses, Issues and Implications', Presentation to the Victorian Bar, 25 July 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
  • C Beaton-Wells and B Fisse, 'Cartel Offences - An Elemental Pathology', Paper presented at Joint Law Council of Australia - Federal Court of Australia Workshop, 3-4 April 2009, Adelaide, Australia.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Cartel Criminalisation: The Australian Way', Presentation to Irish Society of European Law, 6 October 2009, Dublin, Ireland.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Cartel Criminalisation - Global Trends', Presentation at University College, 21 October 2009, London, UK.
  • C Beaton-Wells, 'Cartel Reforms - Impetuses, Issues and Implications', Presentation to Thomsons Inaugural Competition and Trade Practices Summit, March 2009, Melbourne, Australia.

Media Commentary

  • C Beaton-Wells (cited), 'Price fix and it's prison', Australian Financial Review, 19 December 2011.
  • C Beaton-Wells (oped), 'Less Rhetoric, More Restraint Required in "Cartel Crackdown"', 29 March 2011, The Conversation (online). < http://theconversation.edu.au/less-rhetoric-more-restraint-required-in-cartel-crackdown-25>.
  • C Beaton-Wells (cited), 'Public Against Jail Sentences for Cartel Offences, Survey Shows', Australian Financial Review, 23 August 2010, p4.
  • C Beaton-Wells (oped), ' UK Cartel Trial Implosion Causes Shockwaves', Australian Financial Review, 20 May 2010.