Dr Alexandra Merrett

• Doctor of Philisophy (University of Melbourne 2010)

• Current - private legal advisor in the areas of competition and consumer law
• 2006-current - Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne (competition law in the Melbourne Masters program)
• 2006-2012, Senior enforcement lawyer, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  
• Pre-2006 - various law firms

See also: The State of Competition, Australia’s home of competition law analysis. Note, this does not purport to be a comprehensive publications list.

• The assessment and regulation of market power in Australia (Unpublished PhD thesis, Melbourne University 2010)

• Alexandra Merrett, The Assessment and Regulation of Market Power in Australia: An Institutional Approach (2013) LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

• Alexandra Merrett, 'Understanding market power' in John Duns, Brendan Sweeney and Arlen Duke (eds) Comparative Competition Law, Research Handbooks in Comparative Law, Edward Elgar (November 2015) (chapter 6)

• Rhonda Smith and Alexandra Merrett, 'Representing Colin Firth of Mr Darcy: can competition law handle the reality of modern agents?' (2017) European Competition Journal
• Alexandra Merrett, 'ACCC opts for the long haul in Flight Centre but not ANZ' (2015) 31(8) Competition and Consumer Law News 98
• Alexandra Merrett, 'ACCC v Cabcharge: an end to a decade-long dispute?' (August 2015) 31(6) Competition and Consumer Law News 79
• 'The Flight Centre saga continues' (2014) 30(6) Competition and Consumer Law News 73
• 'Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges Coles and Woolworths in breach of s 87B Shopper dockets undertakings' (2014) 30(4) Competition and Consumer Law News 49
•  “Life in a parallel universe: Metcash and the counterfactual” (March 2013) Law Institute Journal 34
• “Playing favourites: the competition effects of preferred customer arrangements” (2011) 7 European Competition Journal 179 (with Rhonda L Smith)
• “Auctions, exclusive contracts and competition for the market” (2007) 3 European Competition Journal 163 (with Rhonda L Smith)
• “Predatory buying: the Weyhaueser decision and its implications for Australia” (2007) 15 Competition and Consumer Journal 199 (with George A Hay and Rhonda L Smith)
• “To buy or not to buy: economic and legal reflections on buyer power” (2006) 14 Competition and Consumer Law Journal 100 (with Rhonda L Smith)
• “Quantitative analysis again up in lights” (2005) 13 Trade Practices Law Journal 90
• “When thieves fall out: Australia’s leniency system” (December 2004) International Business Lawyer 251 (with Simon Uthmeyer)
• “The Court speaks for itself: what Australian decisions say about assessing market power for the purposes of s46 of the TPA” (2004) 11 Competition and Consumer Law Journal 330
• “The intersection between international trade and competition policy: as illustrated by an Australian / American Free Trade Agreement” (2003) 15 Bond University Law Review 228

• Alexandra Merrett, 'What an effects test REALLY means (Part II): refusals to deal' (LinkedIN Pulse, 10 June 2016)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'What does an effects test REALLY mean? Part I: lessons from the courts' (LinkedIN Pulse, 24 March 2016)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Changes to Australian merger reviews: the Government's intriguing response to Harper' (LinkedIN Pulse, 25 February 2016)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Misuse of market power: how figure skating explains the role of purpose' (LinkedIN Pulse, 2 February 2016)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Turf wars loom over new competition policy body' (The Conversation, 26 November 2015)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Small business can’t afford to overlook the little things in the Harper Review' (The Conversation, 17 November 2015)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Supermarket Monsters: a reality check for another Australian myth' (LinkedIn Pulse, 7 October 2015)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Explainer: what is the competition ‘effects test’?' (The Conversation, 1 April 2015)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'ACCC v Coles: a new standard for unconscionability?' (LinkedIN, 16 February 2015)
• Rachel Trindade, Rhonda L Smith and Alexanra Merrett, 'Building better mousetraps: Harper’s re-write of section 46' (October 2014) 20 The State of Competition
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Big business, market power and why we need more test cases' (23September 2014)
• Alexandra Merrett and Rhonda L Smith, 'The public benefits of private litigation' (July 2014) 19 The State of Competition
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Government Inc: time to revisit competitive neutrality' (The Conversation, 14 July 2014)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'ACCC signals strategic change in battle with supermarkets' (The Conversation, 6 May 2014)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'An ambitioius agenda for Harpers's competition review' (The Conversation, 1 April 2014)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Are shopper dockets anti-competitive? Good luck proving it' (The Conversation, 5 September 2013)
• Rachel Trindade and Alexandra Merrett, 'A road map to statutory immunity in Australia' (April 2013) 11 State of Competition
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Coles' milk deal gives supermarket suppliers a reason to be sour' (The Conversation, 23 April 2013)
• Alexandra Merrett, 'Solution cobbled together in haste won't fix things' (The Australian, 18 March 2013)
• Alexandra Merrett, ACCC grocery inquiry will take a long time to bear fruit (The Conversation, 20 February 2013)
• Alexandra Merrett, Rhonda Smith and Rachel Trindade, 'The consumer is king! (Out of sight, out of mind)', State of Competition (Issue 10 (Feb 2013))
• Rachel Trindade, Alexandra Merrett and Rhonda Smith, '2012 in Review' (December 2012) 9 The State of Competition
• Alexandra Merrett and Rachel Trindade 'Flights of fancy or hard core cartels? When agents (allegedly) price fix' (November 2012) 8 The State of Competition
• Rachel Trindade and Alexandra Merrett, Howzat! The War on Mergers (The State of Competition, Issue 6 (Sept 2012))
• Rachel Trindade and Alexandra Merrett, 'Market power and Goldilocks pricing in the National Electricity Market' (August 2012) 5 The State of Competition
• Alexandra Merrett and Rachel Trindade, 'Metcash and beyond ... Likelihoods and the standard of proof' (Issue 3, July 16, 2012), The State of Competition
• Alexandra Merrett and Rhonda L Smith, '"Lowest prices are just the beginning!" Can promising to beat the competition really be anti-competitive' (9 July 2012) 2 The State of Competition
• Alexandra Merrett and Rhonda L Smith, 'Crying over spilt milk: buyer power and the rise of private labels', (2 July 2012) 1 The State of Competition

• Alexandra Merrett and Rhonda L Smith, 'The Australian Grocery Sector: structurally irredeemable?' (Paper presented at the 'Supermarket Power in Australia' sypmosium (Melbourne, 1 August 2013)
• Facing up to (virtual) reality: meeting the online retail challenge (Research paper presented at Competition in the Online Environment, Melbourne Business School, 28 November 2012).