Concept testing is a research tool used to assess the market viability of a new product idea prior to incurring the development expense of actually fabricating a product. This paper examines the current literature on concept ...

The GATT agreement has been a major factor behind the current reforms of the CAP essentially providing an external constraint on policy developments. This has enabled a radical switch from unlimited support based upon ...

The role of owner-provided services in fee-based recreation access is evaluated for the case of waterfowl hunting. An hedonic framework is used to analyze and estimate the implicit price of some waterfowl hunting lease ...

This paper is an attempt to make a contribution to current debates about the reform of higher education by using the work of Ronald Coase on 'the nature of the firm' as a framework for considering alternative institutional ...

The focus of this thesis is health economics and the interface between the public and private hospital sectors within the New Zealand health care system. It summarises the distinctive elements which characterise consumer ...

This paper discusses changes in dietary patterns and proposes some reasons for these, including food safety and environmental reasons. Implications of these changes are discussed from both a national and international ...