Regulating Australia's retail grocery sector - goals, actors and techniques

大型连锁超市对消费者、企业和社区具有重大的经济和社会影响，对澳大利亚的经济增长和生产力至关重要。鉴于它们的规模和覆盖范围，对连锁企业的监管构成了重大挑战。这个跨学科、经验性和理论驱动型的项目旨在审问竞争法在零售食品杂货部门应用时的目标和过程。在澳大利亚的首个此类研究中，它努力解释连锁企业的战略和行业关系如何影响监管行动。预计这项研究将提出关于工具和技术的建议，以确保对该部门的监管在法律上和实际中都是高效和有效的。

The major supermarket chains have a substantial economic and social impact on consumers, businesses and communities and are crucial to Australia's economic growth and productivity. Given their size and reach, regulation of the chains poses significant challenges. This interdisciplinary, empirical and theoretically driven project aims to interrogate the goals and processes of competition law as it applies in the retail grocery sector. In the first Australian research of its kind, it endeavours to explain how the chains' strategies and industry relationships influence regulatory action. The research is expected to produce recommendations on instruments and techniques to ensure that regulation of the sector is legally and practically efficient and effective.