Policy interventions in South Africa and possible ways forward
Ownership of assets, including land,
businesses, stocks, bonds, and cash, plays
an integral role in determining economic
inequality and distribution of wealth…
Serial Acquisitions: A Frameworkfor Analysis
Enforcement agencies have amended
laws and guidelines in recent years to deal
with mergers that do not affect
competition individually, but do on a
cumulative basis. For example…
The Judicial Review of Economic Evidence
Economic concepts are integral to
competition analysis and to economic
regulation but as a specialist field
economics (and competition and
regulatory economics, in particular) is…
Basic income grant options for South Africa
The recent unrest in South Africa prompted
the Acacia Economics team to consider
the options for a basic income grant using
Statistics South Africa….
The Competition Amendment Act: draft price discrimination regulations​
The rise of online retail internationally has
raised an apocalyptic spectre of empty
malls, dying city centres, local factory
closures and rising unemployment…
The Competition Amendment Act: draft buyer power regulations
The rise of online retail internationally has
raised an apocalyptic spectre of empty
malls, dying city centres, local factory
closures and rising unemployment…
The potential of e-commerce in South Africa
The rise of online retail internationally has
raised an apocalyptic spectre of empty
malls, dying city centres, local factory
closures and rising unemployment…