Heightening Competition in the Postal and Delivery Sector

Edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer

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Abstract: This compilation of original essays by an international cast of top scholars addresses some of the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. The European Commission and member states wrestle with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalization of these sectors and maintain the universal service obligation while the United States Postal Service is coming to terms with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. In addition, the book addresses the impact of electronic competition as well as other problems facing the field.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781848446984
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Access and the USO Under Full Market Opening

Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer

Ch 2 Access to Infrastructure and Service Elements in the Postal Sector

Alessandra Fratini, Bernard Roy and Joost Vantomme

Ch 3 National Regulation of Postal Services Under the 2008 EU Postal Services Directive

Richard Eccles

Ch 4 Abuse of Dominance in the Postal Sector: The Contribution of the Guidance Paper on Article 82 EC

Damien Geradin and David Henry

Ch 5 The Altmark Ruling and Approaches to Measuring Efficiency of Postal Operators

Vincenzo Visco Comandini, Adolfo Consiglio, Stefano Gori, Emiliano Piccinin and Maria Rita Pierleoni

Ch 6 Price-cap Postal Regulation: The French Experience

Bénédicte Bouin, Nicolas Curien and Guillaume Lacroix

Ch 7 Some Dynamic Models for Mail Demand: The French Case

François Boldron, Catherine Cazals, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sébastien Lécou

Ch 8 Forecasting mail volumes in an evolving market environment

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

Ch 9 The effect of falling volumes on traditional efficiency analysis

Greg Harman, Wim Koevoets, Alejandro Requejo, Erik van der Merwe and Navin Waghe

Ch 10 Economies of scale and scope and opening hours in post offices and agencies

Massimo Filippini, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner

Ch 11 Welfare and profit implications for changes in service specifi cation within the universal service

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

Ch 12 An operational measure of the cost of universal service as cross- subsidy

Margaret Cigno, Diane Monaco and Edward S. Pearsall

Ch 13 Estimating the impact of a uniform price rule in a liberalized postal environment: the case of the United States Postal Service

Michael Bradley, Jeff L. Colvin, Norma B. Nieto and Daniel J. Tobias

Ch 14 Funding the cost of universal service in a liberalized postal sector

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Denis Joram and Bernard Roy

Ch 15 Cross- country comparisons of optimal mail delivery frequency

Claire Borsenberger, Denis Joram, Clément Magre and Bernard Roy

Ch 16 The cost of the USO in the United States

Robert Cohen, Charles McBride and John C. Panzar

Ch 17 Universal service auctions in liberalized postal markets

Joan Calzada, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

Ch 18 A team of rivals: collaboration between United States Postal Service and UPS

Paul C. Smith and Paul E. Voigt

Ch 19 Customer satisfaction models for Itella’s business customers

Leeni Kiikkilä

Ch 20 Postal product innovation using EPPML

Leon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea

Ch 21 The environmental impacts of the US mail: initial life cycle inventory model and analysis

Lawrence G. Buc, Peter A. Soyka and Sander S. Glick

Ch 22 Determining the impact of shape and weight of mail items on manual processing costs: an experimental approach

Stéphane Bernard, Caroline Gomez, Lise Martin and Bernard Roy

Ch 23 Assessing the cost of capital for USPs in Europe: a practical approach

António Manuel Amaral, Paulo Louro, Carla Mota and João Cristovão

Ch 24 Historical development of a Universal Service Obligation in the United States

James I. Campbell

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