General Information
Organisation's name
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
Organisation's website
The Team
Does the team works with government(s) on applying BI to public policy?
The team is part of:
Part of federal government
Number of people that apply behavioural science in the team:
1
Approximate date of team creation:
03 2019
Activities
Activities in which the unit has been involved
Conducting experiments to measure behavioural impact, Evaluating behavioural impact in other ways (beyond experiments), Providing advice on policy implementation relying on existing evidence, Providing advice on policy design relying on existing evidence, Delivering training and education, Providing advice on consumer behaviour in a regulatory context - especially in order to maximise consumer redress when a firm has broken the law. Providing behavioural insights advice in the context of consumer litigation cases (For cases where we allege a firm has engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct)
Policy area(s)
Consumer policy
Tools used to measure the effect of intervention
Randomized control trials or A/B tests, Surveys, Before and after comparisons of the target outcome
Number of experiments in the last twelve months: 2