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‘member choice of fund’ legislation. While superannuation choice continues to be widely supported, the debate lacks coherent … exogenous constraints affecting the achievement of informed choice, members’ choice preferences and associated policy … resolutions. Applying this framework, we argue that a genuine choice of fund model should cater for active and passive choice …
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delivery system driven by a version of the quasi-market model. Instead of delivering increased consumer choice and improved … should receive. For many consumers, the notion of consumer 'choice' around service provision was fictitious and they felt …
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This paper studies life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. We show that cost-effectiveness analysis is consistent with cost-benefit analysis if the Lifetime utility function is additive over time, multiplicative in the utility of consumption and the utility of health status,...
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A theory of value sits at the core of every school of economic thought and directs the allocation of resources to competing uses. Ecological resources complicate the modem neoclassical approach to determining value due to their complex nature, considerable non-market values and the difficulty in...
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influence of such groupings on consumer choice and behavior.A new phenomenon is presented that studies the influence of gestalt … is demonstrated in experiments 1 and 2. Both experiments use different domains of product choice and a game of chance to … moderate the differential influence of spatial grouping on choice in the domain of gains and losses. Finally, theoretical and …
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.Results showed when price is held constant; the appearance of the food is the biggest determinant in consumer choice. There was … influential attribute. Country of origin had more of an effect on consumer choice in the situation. When neither price nor …
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his paper examines the relationships between consumers' country-level and product-level images of a country, and the equity they associate with a brand from that country, using canonical correlation analysis. Results from mall-intercept surveys conducted in an Australian state capital city...
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Psychic distance, as described in the Uppsala internationalization model, is based on the impediments to information flows between a country market and a firm. The greater the impediments, the longer is the distance. The operationalization of psychic distance in empirical investigations is most...
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, the consumer’s choice. In a controlled experiment two hundred Bryant University students were presented with a choice task … to select a cell phone plan from a set of plans described by price and six other features. Some choice sets contained a … between reference price change or plan choice and the type of outlier seen. In addition, even students who recognized that the …
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In this paper, which is concerned with philosophical methodology as it might affect social science and ethics, the endeavor is to explore the depth and implications of Buchanan’s interest in Spinoza. After establishing their connection, the paper explores the parallels between Spinoza’s...
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