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| Volume 13, No.
2,
December
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Subadditivity in Resource Allocation: An Experimental Study of |
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the Hong Kong Mandatory Retirement Protection Scheme |
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Ricky S. Wong |
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Department of Supply Chain Management, Hang Seng Management College,
Hong Kong
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Wai Hung Wong |
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Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong |
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| Abstract |
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This paper investigates the effect of subadditivity on how
individuals allocate their savings to the Mandatory Provident Fund
(MPF) scheme. Findings indicated that when an
MPF
category is unpacked into its subcategories, individuals tend to
allocate a higher percentage of their savings to that fund and that
the perceived readiness of fund comprehension mediated the
relationship between unpacking and people’s allocation. One major
contribution is that decision makers’ choices of MPFs depend on how
the information is presented to them.
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Key words:
subadditivity; resource allocation; mandatory provident fund;
mandatory retirement protection
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| JEL
classification:
C91; D81; I31 |
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