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Dr Rhonda Smith

    Senior Lecturer, Melbourne University Faculty of Commerce

 

Relevant qualifications

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) (1966)
  • Master of Arts (Eco) (1969)
  • Doctor of Commerce (2006) Melbourne

Relevant work history

Expert evidence

  • Dr Smith has provided expert evidence in a number of high profile competition law cases, including:
    • The C7 case (for Seven)
    • ACCC v Liquorland (Australia) Pty Ltd [2006] FCA 826
    • ACCC v Australian Medical Association Western Australian Branch Inc (2003) ATPR 41-945 (for ACCC)

Relevant editorships

Relevant consultancies

  • Provides consultancy services in relation to trade practices matters

Competition law publications

Books

Articles

  • Rhonda Smith, 'Market definition: Going, going, gone? Developments in the United States' (2010) 18 Competition and Consumer Law Journal 119
  • Rhonda Smith, Arlen Duke and David Round, 'Signalling, collusion and s 45 of the Trade Practices Act'
    (2009) 17 Competition & Consumer Law Journal 22-42.
  • Rhonda Smith, "Temporal considerations and entry" (2009) 17(2) Competition & Consumer Law Journal 176 - 191
  • Rhonda Smith, "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" American and Australian Approaches to Exclusionary Conduct" (2008) 31(3) Melbourne University Law Review 1099 - 1134
  • Trindade and Rhonda Smith, "A Review of the ACCC’s Media Mergers Guideline" (2007) 14(3) Competiiton and Consumer Law Journal 281-291
  • Rhonda Smith and A Merrett, "Auctions, Exclusive Contracts and Competition for the Market" (2007) 3(1) European Competiiton Journal 163-184
  • Rhonda Smith and Stephen King, "Competition Law Adequately Protect Consumers?" (2007) 28(7) European Competition Law Review 412 - 424
  • Rhonda Smith, "Modernising Australian merger analysis" (2007) 35(5) Australian Business Law Review 358 - 369
  • Rhonda Smith, "European Merger Control: Do We Need An Efficiency Defence?" (2007) 15(1) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 128-134.
  • Rhonda Smith, "The Australian grocery industry: a competition perspective" (2006) 50(1) The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 33 - 50
  • Rhonda Smith and A Rahman, "Conglomerate Mergers and the ACCC's Merger Guidelines" (2006) 14(1) Competition and Consumer Law
    Journal     20-38.
  • Rhonda Smith and A Merrett, "To Buy or not to buy: Economic and legal reflections on buyer power" (2006) 14(2) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 100-126
  • Rhonda Smith, "The Australian grocery industry" (2004) 37(3) Australian Economic Review 304 - 310
  • Rhonda Smith and Trindade, "The high court on Boral: a return to the past?" (2003) 10(3) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 336 - 347
  • Round and Smith, "When is a market a market?" (2003) 31(6) Australian Business Law Review 412 - 422
  • Rhonda Smith, ""Further to Round on penalties, damages and Pt IV of the TPA"" (2003) 11(1) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 97 - 109
  • Rhonda Smith, "Authorisation and the TPA - More about public benefit" (2003) 11(1) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 21 - 42.

Conference papers

  • Rhonda Smith, "Insights into Consumer Risk: Building Blocks for Consumer Protection Policy" (2006) Roundtable on Demand-Side Economics for Consumer Policy
  • Rhonda Smith, ""Response of consumption to income, credit and interest rates in Australia"" (2005) 34th Conference of Economics
  • Rhonda Smith, "A Bayesian approach to inference for a thresholod autoregression with a lunit root." (2003) The 2003 PhD Conference in Economics and Business