Centre for Competition Law and Economics

Prof Willem Boshoff published an opinion piece in the Business Day today, setting out major concerns with the Competition Amendment Bill, which was tabled recently in the South African parliament.

How SA's competition bill is a threat to investment The new Competition Amendment Bill, which seeks to amend competition law in fundamental ways, may worsen competitive outcomes and inhibit investment, writes Willem Boshoff

Prof Willem Boshoff, co-director of the CCLE, co-authored an opinion piece in the Business Day on the implications of competition among South African universities for the regulation of university fees:

Compare like with like when reining in high cost of tertiary education At stake is the government’s approach to the affordability question and the implications for the higher education sector, write Stan du Plessis and Willem Boshoff

CCLE has launched its blog series! This blog will be authored by the researchers in the centre, and will discuss all topics relating to Competition Law and Economics.

Check out the first blog:

Concentrating on markets Since 2016, so-called industry concentration has gradually received more attention among competition policy practitioners. In the US in particular, both academics and some policymakers have argued that American industries and the economy at large have become more concentrated. In South Africa, lawma...

The CCLE hosted an international symposium on imperfect forms of collusion on 12 and 13 January at the STIAS conference venue in Stellenbosch. The participants considered various forms of collusion different from traditional hard-core price-fixing cartels from both an economics, legal and criminological perspective. A session was also committed to discussing how the concept of ‘agreement’ differs between South Africa, Russia, South Korea, the EU and the US. Prof Willem Boshoff, co-director of the CCLE, and Prof Johannes Paha from the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, co-organized the two-day event. Invited specialists included Bill Kovacic, John Connor and Maarten Pieter Schinkel. Competition practitioners, including from the South African Competition Commission, also attended.