Australian Competition Law: Expert Profiles
Professor Stephen King
Commissioner, Productivity Commission
Relevant qualifications and honours
Bachelor of Economics - B.Ec (Hon) ANU (1985)- Master of Economics - M.Ec Monash University (1987)
- Master of Arts - AM Harvard University (1989)
- PhD Harvard University (1991)
Relevant work history
Current
- 2016 - Commissioner, Productivity Commission
Former
2012 - 2016 Member (Part Time), National Competition Council- 2010 - 2016 Member (Part Time), Economic Regulation Authority of WA
- 2012 - 2016 Professor of Economics, Monash University
- 2005 - Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Business School
- 2009 - 2014 Director and founder of CoRE Research
- 2009-2012 - Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
- 2004-2009 - Member, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) (Chair, Mergers Review Committee)
- 2002-2004 - Professor of Management (Economics), Melbourne Business School
- 1998-2004 - Professor of Economics, Department of Economics University of Melbourne
- 1994-1997 - Research Fellow, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
- 1991-1994 - Lecturer, Department of Economics University of Melbourne
- 1998-1991 - Section Leader Introductory Microeconomics, Harvard College
- 1989 and 1990 - Lecturer, Mathematics for Economists, Harvard University
Expert witness
- 2003 - Expert testimony on vertical integration in electricity (re: AGL v ACCC) to the Federal Court of Australia
- 2002 - Expert testimony on electricity (re: review of a NEMMCO determination on the SNI Interconnector) to the National Electricity Tribunal
- 2002 - Expert evidence (witness statement) on telecommunications access pricing (re: AAPT and Telstra) to the Australian Competition Tribunal,
- 2001 - Expert testimony on regulation to Victorian Supreme Court re: TXU v ORG
- 2000 - Expert testimony on electricity distribution to Victorian ORG appeal tribunal
- 1999 - Expert testimony to Australian Federal Court re: ACCC v Safeway
- 1999 - Expert evidence (witness statement) to Australian Federal Court re: ACCC v Telstra
- 1997 - Expert testimony to Australian Competition Tribunal on Natural Gas Supply
Competition law publications
Interviews/media
- Stephen King and Graeme Samuel, 'Competition law fix could seriously harm competition' (The Conversation, 5 May 2015)
- Graeme Samuel and Stephen King, 'Let companies compete and consumers take the gains' (AFR, 7 April 2015)
- Stephen King, 'Words matter. That's why the ACCC has got it wrong' (The Conversation, 3 September 2014)
- Graeme Samuel and Stephen King, 'The effect of the ACCC's ambitions is dangerous' (Australian Financial Review, 12 August 2014, page 47)
- Stephen King, 'The NBN is in a regulatory hole - time to stop digging' (The Conversation, 6 June 2014)
- Stephen King, 'No petrol price reprieve for motorists this year' (The Conversation, 16 January 2014)
- Stephen King, 'Groceries, power & fuel: crunch time for competition review' (The Conversation, 17 December 2013)
- Stephen King, 'Coles and Woolworths Code useful, but beware disputes' (The Conversation, 20 November 2013)
- Stephen King, 'Graeme Samuel: We’ve lost principled, analytical debate in this country' Part 1 (The Conversation, 26 April 2012)
- Stephen King, 'Graeme Samuel: the problem with petrol, the NBN and the ‘scare campaign’ against supermarkets' Part 2 (The Conversation, 27 April 2012)
Articles
Stephen King, 'Competition Policy and the Competition Policy Review' (2015) 48(4) Australian Economic Review 402- Chris Jose, Stephen P King and Graeme Samuel, 'An Agenda for Australia's National Competition Policy Inquiry' (Report, 11 November 2013)
- Joshua S Gans and Stephen P King, 'Paying for Loyalty: Product Bundling in Oligopoly' (February 2004) Melbourne Business School Working Paper No 2004-06 (subsequently published as Joshua S Gans and Stephen P King, 'Paying for Loyalty: Product Bundling in Oligopoly' (2006) 54(1) Journal of Industrial Economics 43-62)
- Joshua S Gans and Stephen P King, 'Competitive Neutrality in Access Pricing' (2005) 38(2) Australian Economic Review 128-136
- Anthony Niblett, Joshua S. Gans and Stephen P. King, 'Structural and Behavioural Market Power Under the Trade Practices Act: An Application to Predatory Pricing' (April 2004) 32 Australian Business Law Review 83
- Joshua S Gans and Stephen P King, 'Supermarkets and Shopper Dockets: The Australian Experience' (September 2004) 37(3) Australian Economic Review 311-316
- Joshua S Gans and Stephen P King, 'Contracts and Competition with Large Buyers' (Working Paper, July 2000)
- Teresa Fels, Joshua S Gans, Stephen P King, 'The Role of Undertakings in Regulatory Decision-Making' (2000) 33(1) Australian Economic Review
- More forthcoming