Progress in the Competitive Agenda in the Postal and Delivery Sector

Edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer

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Abstract: Regulation continues to be an important issue in the postal and delivery sector of the global economy. This latest volume of the series covers progress made in the competitive agenda in the industry. It is global in scope and addresses topics of great importance to scholars and practitioners of postal regulation and public sector economics.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781848440609
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Service Quality, Price Caps and the USO Under Entry

Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer

Ch 2 Estimating the Impact of Price Regulation on Service Quality in Post

Gregory Swinand, Sean Lyons, Michael O’Grady and David Murphy

Ch 3 Price and Quality of Service Regulation in Portugal

João Castro and Agostinho Franco

Ch 4 Competition through Downstream Access in the UK Postal Sector: The First Four Years

Paul Dudley, Stephen Agar, Leonardo Mautino and Felipe Florez Duncan

Ch 5 A Dynamic and Endogenous Approach to Financing the USO in a Liberalized Environment

François Boldron, Claire Borsenberger, Denis Joram, Bernard Roy and Sebastien Lecou

Ch 6 Postal Costing Beyond ABC: Estimating the Economic Cost of Mail Services

Richard Robinson and Jane McMurdie

Ch 7 Costing Elements of the Universal Service

Richard Bradley, Phil Burns and George Houpis

Ch 8 Calculating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation: The Need for a Global Approach

Christian Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner

Ch 9 Cost Analysis and Pricing of Innovative Postal Products

Louis F. O’Brien, Leon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea

Ch 10 Some Welfare and Pricing Implications of Alternative Regimes for Value-Added Taxation of Postal Services

Philippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez

Ch 11 Postal Price Elasticities and Intermedia Competition: A Multisided Market Approach

Vincenzo Visco Comandini, Michael Lintell, Stefano Gori, Bradley Tisdahl and Maria Rita Pierleoni

Ch 12 Network Externalities and the USO: A Two-sided Market Approach

François Boldron, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Bernard Roy and Denis Joram

Ch 13 Mail Order Businesses Demand: A Conceptual Approach

Xavier Ambrosini, Sebastien Breville, Joël Cornee and Olaf Klargaard

Ch 14 Internet Advertising and Direct Mail: Trends and Analysis for the UK

Soterios Soteri, Frédérique Fève, Jean-Pierre Florens and Frank Rodriguez

Ch 15 Using Operating Data to Measure Labor Input Variability and Density Economies in United States Postal Service Mail Processing Operations

A. Thomas Bozzo

Ch 16 Do Differences in Facility-Specific Mail Processing Unit Costs Have Implications for the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation?

Margaret Cigno, Diane Monaco, Matthew Robinson and Denis Joram

Ch 17 The EU Postal Services and Public Procurement Law: Legal and Regulatory Issues for the Postal Sector

Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo

Ch 18 How Should Regulation be Adjusted when Universal Service Substitution Grows?

Pekka Leskinen, Peter Karlsson, Heikki Nikali and Paivi Rokkanen

Ch 19 Market Entry and Competitive Strategies in the German B2B Parcel Market

Helmut Dietl, Markus Lang, Martin Lutzenberger and Stephan M. Wagner

Ch 20 Bank of America, Mail, and the Environment

Lawrence G. Buc and Peter A. Soyka

Ch 21 Innovation in Postal Products and Pricing: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Reform Era

Robert A.F. Reisner, Maynard Benjamin and Derek Osborn

Ch 22 The IPO as a Driving Force in the Change Process

Peter Koppe, Christian Bosch, Silke Hömstreit and Stefan Pohl

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