Quality and Pricing of Delivery Services in the E-commerce Sector

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe Donder and Denis Joram
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Claire Borsenberger: Groupe La Poste
Philippe Donder: Toulouse School of Economics (IDEI and GREMAQ-CNRS)
Denis Joram: Groupe La Poste

A chapter in Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy, 2015, pp 77-90 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We study the delivery market for e-commerce products, with two technologies: home delivery and delivery to a relay point. Taste differences for these are represented by a Hotelling model. Operators choose the (costly) quality of their delivery service. We study a single operator who uses both technologies and a duopoly with two single-technology operators. The home delivery operator may or may not be regulated; the relay operator is not regulated. We study pricing policies and the impact of competition on welfare. We also show that quality regulation may have an adverse effect on welfare.

Keywords: Marginal Cost; Consumer Surplus; Home Delivery; Total Welfare; Mixed Oligopoly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12874-0_7

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