Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1093840

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1093840

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A study of consumers' competence when choosing between complex mobile phone contracts and the regulatory implications of their coping strategies. The main outcome of this project will be a better understanding of which kinds of mobile phone contracts and methods of displaying them to potential users are the biggest sources of decision making errors, and which techniques for coping with a plethora of such contracts are the most reliable ones. This knowledge will be used to derive recommendations for consumer policy agencies and advice for consumers that will increase financial welfare and reduce mental stress for consumers. Some of the findings may have implications for regulators seeking to design consumer protection policies in other area where firms deliberately offer customers opaque contracts.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $349,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industry Economics And Industrial Organisation | Applied Economics | Welfare Economics | Applied Economics Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Telecommunications | Industry policy | Consumer affairs |

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Applied Economics Not Elsewhere Classified | Consumer affairs | Industry Economics And Industrial Organisation | Industry policy | Telecommunications | Welfare Economics

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