Consumer behaviour
Alternative labels
Consumer engagement
Consumer expectation
Article
Cost, status, service and sustainability, changing expectations around Australian funeral practice
This article explores a DIY funeral scenario, and what its potential might mean for consumers and for funeral practice in today’s context.
Blog post
The economics of privacy
This article asks what the economic argument is for and against privacy, or managing data flows. It argues that privacy has a role to play in whether data will be used in a way which changes the allocation of economic surplus, or whether data will be used in a way that will increase the total...
Policy report
Review of data security, consent and opt-outs
Recommendations to strengthen security of health and care information and ensure people can make informed choices about how their data is used.
Report
Consumer enablement - evidence check
This Evidence Check rapid review examined consumer enablement, defined as the specific components that combine to make a consumer engaged. The review explores this construct in the chronic disease population in relation to its determinants; the tools and instruments demonstrated to be valid, reliable and clinically useful in measuring enablement; and the evidence regarding specific...
Discussion paper
Is electricity demand growth returning in Australia?
In late 2010, after over a century of almost uninterrupted growth, demand for electricity in Australia began to fall. Two previous papers, published in 2013 and 2015, examined possible reasons why demand was falling in the National Electricity Market (NEM), which accounts for nearly 90% of Australian electricity consumption. However, no sooner had the second...