The changes in funding for undergraduate courses in England mean that universities are reassessing their product offerings to prospective students. In order to make effective strategic decisions, universities can make use of consumer behaviour research to understand better the impact of higher fees on how students weigh up their options for university. This study uses conjoint analysis to simul...

This paper examines how competition among payment card networks—three-party scheme networks and four-party scheme networks—affects pricing as well as the welfare of various parties. A competing network has an incentive to provide rewards to its card users. By providing more generous rewards than its rival networks, the network can increase its own card transactions because multihoming cardholde...

The abuse of transfer pricing by multinational enterprises (MNEs) is a topical issue the world over. Abusive results in erosion tax bases and profit shifting from countries with high rates to those lower rates, thus enabling avoidance evasion. Developing are argued suffer most under negative impacts manipulation. This study investigates strategies employed MNEs minimise their burden developing ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the mean, median and 10th and 90th percentile levels of fees and out-of-pocket costs to the patient for an initial consultation with a consultant physician; to determine any differences in fees and bulk-billing rates between specialties and between states and territories. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Analysis of 2015 Medicare claims data for an initial outpatient a...

The protected coral reefs off the coast of Malaysia receive numerous tourists, while also being as fishing grounds. These joint environmental pressures raise the need for additional costly conservation measures. It is natural to consider the potential for expanding the 'user pays' principle, already implemented in the form of various user fees. This study explores the potential for price discri...

T paper investigates the pricing and restocking fee decisions of two competing firms selling horizontally differentiated products. We model a duopoly facing consumers who have heterogeneous tastes for the products and who must experience a product before knowing how well it matches with their preferences. The analysis yields several key insights. Restocking fees not only can be sustained in a c...