Reforming the Postal Sector in the Face of Electronic Competition

Edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer

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Abstract: In our increasingly technology-focused world, demand for traditional postal services is steadily shrinking. This timely volume examines the many challenges that the worldwide postal sector is facing as a result of growing electronic competition, and offers expert recommendations for reshaping postal structures to strengthen their competitiveness in an electronic age.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780857935793
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Privatization of postal operators: old arguments and new realities , pp 1-19

Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer

Ch 2 The UK Postal Services Act 2011 , pp 20-35

Richard Eccles

Ch 3 A gravity model of international postal exchanges , pp 36-47

José Ansón and Matthias Helble

Ch 4 Price comparisons in the parcel industry: a new approach based on the hedonic price theory , pp 48-62

Claire Borsenberger, Sébastien Bréville and Aurélie Dehais

Ch 5 A new governance model for US postal services , pp 63-75

James I. Campbell

Ch 6 Estimates of US postal price elasticities of demand derived from a random- coefficients discrete-choice normal model , pp 76-88

Margaret M. Cigno, Elena S. Patel and Edward S. Pearsall

Ch 7 Segmentation and nonlinear pricing in the postal sector , pp 89-107

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Denis Joram and Sébastien Lécou

Ch 8 The proposed reform of EU rules on public procurement: a postal sector perspective , pp 108-117

Alessandra Fratini

Ch 9 Optimization of the United States postal retail network by applying GIS and econometric tools , pp 118-131

J.P. Klingenberg, Lyudmila Y. Bzhilyanskaya and Michael J. Ravnitzky

Ch 10 Estimating long-run incremental costs in the postal sector: a UK perspective , pp 132-147

Leonardo Mautino, Paul Dudley, James Prettyman and Fenella Heagney

Ch 11 Vulnerable users in times of declining demand: the case of basic bank services in Norway and Sweden , pp 148-162

Henrik B. Okholm and Anna Möller

Ch 12 Dynamic letter volume models: how does an economic downturn affect substitution propensities? , pp 163-178

Vance Martin, Chris J. Paterson, Heikki Nikali and Qiubang Li

Ch 13 Electronic substitution and USO scope definition , pp 179-193

Marcello Cuomo, Tommaso Nardone, Alberto Rovero and Gennaro Scarfiglieri

Ch 14 Letter traffic demand in the UK: some new evidence and review of econometric analysis over the past decade , pp 194-210

Marzena Jarosik, John Nankervis, Jonathan Pope, Soterios Soteri and Leticia Veruete-McKay

Ch 15 Status of the postal service twenty years after the Green Paper: a Franco–European perspective , pp 211-225

Joëlle Toledano

Ch 16 Electronic substitution and postal price elasticities: a customer market approach , pp 226-240

Leticia Veruete-McKay, Robert Sheldon, Peter Burge and Alison Lawrence

Ch 17 Measuring consumer preferences for postal services , pp 241-260

Charlene Rohr, Urs Trinkner, Alison Lawrence, Chong Woo Kim, Dimitris Potoglou and Robert Sheldon

Ch 18 Efficiency analysis postal operators: comparison between the United States and Europe , pp 261-276

Maria Rita Pierleoni and Stefano Gori

Ch 19 Termination charges in the international parcel market , pp 277-293

Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

Ch 20 Competition and the social cost of regulation in the postal sector , pp 294-305

Martin Maegli and Christian Jaag

Ch 21 Measuring the environmental benefit of reducing the United States Postal Service’s operations , pp 306-321

Norma B. Nieto and Adam C. Houck

Ch 22 Economic regulation and the UK postal sector, 2000–2011 , pp 322-335

Tim Wash

Ch 23 What’s past is prologue: understanding developments in North American postal markets , pp 336-349

Michael Bradley, Jeff Colvin and Mary K. Perkins

Ch 24 Human capital and diversification choices for postal operators , pp 350-360

Dominique Bailly and Margaux Meidinger

Ch 25 Welfare and pricing with single-piece and bulk mail access competition in the postal sector , pp 361-374

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

Ch 26 The postal economy in the UK and Rutgers CRRI conferences since 1990: a review of developments and economic themes , pp 375-392

Frank Rodriguez

Ch 27 Social media challenges the entire postal industry , pp 393-406

Kari Elkelä and Heikki Nikali

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