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65: Weiterentwicklung der institutionellen Ausgestaltung im Bahnmarkt

Urs Trinkner and Martin Lutzenberger

64: Funding Universal Services: Cross-subsidization and Net cost balancing

Urs Trinkner, Christian Jaag and Andreas Haller

62: Mail Stream as a Platform: Patterns of Recipients? Reactions

Christian Jaag and Thomas Geissmann

61: Gefaehrdete Kohaerenz im Kartellrecht

Michael Funk, Christian Jaag and Samuel Rutz

60: The Bitcoin Mining Game: On the Optimality of Honesty in Proof-of-work Consensus Mechanism

Juan Beccuti and Christian Jaag

59: What future for the Post Office network?

Christian Jaag and Matthias Finger

58: Mail Composition and Recipients? Reaction to Direct Mail

Thomas Geissmann, Christian Jaag, Martin Maegli and Urs Trinkner

57: The more economic approach to predatory pricing

Michael Funk and Christian Jaag

56: Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies: Opportunities for Postal Financial Services

Christian Jaag and Christian Bach

55: The Mailstream as a Platform

Christian Jaag and Christian Bach

54: Why Corporate Taxation Means Source Taxation - A Response to the OECD?s Actions against Base Erosion and Profit Shifting

Luzius Cavelti, Christian Jaag and Tobias Rohner

53: Commercial and regulatory challenges for postal e-services in Switzerland

Christian Jaag, Martin Maegli and Denis Morel

52: Cryptocurrencies: New Opportunities for Postal Financial Services

Christian Jaag and Christian Bach

51: Postal strategies in a digital age

Christian Jaag, Urs Trinkner and José Parra Moyano

50: Assessment of EU Postal Sector Policy during the Second Barroso Administration (2010-2014)

Christian Jaag, Urs Trinkner and Jeffrey Yusof

49: USO cost allocation rules and welfare

Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

48: Market Regulations and USO in the Revised Swiss Postal Act: Provisions and Authorities

Christian Jaag and Martin Maegli

47: Estimating the Financial Impact of Discontinuing Saturday Delivery of Letters and Flats in the U.S

Jp Klingenberg, Matthew H. Robinson, Andreas Haller and Urs Trinkner

46: The Effect of Payment Reversibility on E-commerce and Postal Quality

Christian Jaag and Christian Bach

45: Postal-Sector Policy: From Monopoly to Regulated Competition and Beyond

Christian Jaag

44: Switzerland: The Role of Swiss Post in Indirect Press Subsidies

Alfred Hugentobler and Christian Jaag

43: Service public in der Schweiz - Herausforderungen aus ?konomischer Sicht

Matthias Finger and Urs Trinkner

42: Regulation and the burden of the net cost resulting from the Universal Service Obligation

Christian Jaag, Urs Trinkner and Topias Uotila

41: Calculating the net cost of home delivery

Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

40: Intellectual Property Rights and the Future of Universal Service Obligations in Communications

Christian Jaag

39: Price Regulation and the Financing of Universal Services in Network Industries

Christian Jaag

38: Unobserved heterogeneous effects in the cost efficiency analysis of electricity distribution systems

Per Agrell, Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Martin Koller

37: Integrated timetables for railway passenger transport services

Sonia Strube Martins, Matthias Finger, Andreas Haller and Urs Trinkner

36: Technology and Market Structure in the Defender Model

Simon Wey, Christian Jaag, Helmut Dietl and Urs Trinkner

35: Defining and financing an intermodal USO

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

34: Measuring consumer preferences for postal services

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

33: Termination Charges in the International Parcel Market

Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

32: Competition and the Social Cost of Regulation in the Postal Sector

Martin Maegli and Christian Jaag

31: Postal and Regulatory Reform in Intermodal Competition

Christian Jaag and Helmut Dietl

30: Commercial and Regulatory Aspects of Reverse Hybrid Mail

Christian Jaag, Florian Stahl and Benoit Stroelin

29: Ein koh?renter Regulierungsrahmen f?r den Schieneng?terverkehr in der Schweiz

Jobst Grotrian, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

28: Termination Charges in the International Parcel Market: Competition and Regulation

Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

27: Defending Mail Markets against New Entrants: An Application of the Defender Model

Christian Jaag, Helmut Dietl, Urs Trinkner and Oliver F?rst

26: The future of the USO - Economic rationale for universal services and implications for a future-oriented USO

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

25: The Effects of Increased Competition in a Vertically Separated Railway Market

Markus Lang, Marc Laperrouza and Matthias Finger

24: Competition and Welfare Effects of VAT Exemptions

Helmut Dietl, Christian Jaag, Markus Lang and Urs Trinkner

23: Postal Markets and Electronic Substitution: Implications for Regulatory Practices and Institutions in Europe

Martin Maegli, Christian Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner

22: Impact of VAT Exemptions in the Postal Sector on Competition and Welfare

Helmut Dietl, Christian Jaag, Markus Lang, Martin Lutzenberger and Urs Trinkner

21: Practical Approaches to USO Costing and Financing

Christian Jaag, John Lisle, Navin Waghe, Erik van der Merwe and Urs Trinkner

20: Entry Deterrence and the Calculation of the Net Cost of Universal Service Obligations

Christian Jaag

19: The interaction of universal service costing and financing in the postal sector: A calibrated approach

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

18: Regulatory Governance Costs in Network Industries: Observations in Postal Regulation

Martin Maegli, Christian Jaag and Matthias Finger

17: Compensating the Net Cost of Universal Postal Services

Christian Jaag

16: A General Framework for Regulation and Liberalization in Network Industries

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

15: Co?ts de la r?gulation des industries de r?seau: enseignements du r?seau postal

Martin Maegli, Christian Jaag and Matthias Finger

14: Universal Service Auctions in Liberalized Postal Markets

Joan Calzada, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

13: Tendering Universal Service Obligations in Liberalized Network Industries

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

12: Developing Universal Postal Services in Latin America ? an Economic Perspective

Helmut Dietl and Urs Trinkner

11: Market Opening, Downstream Access, and Competition in the Market for Mail

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

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

Christian Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner

9: Innovation in the Swiss mail sector: deregulation versus liberalization

Christian Jaag

8: Economics of Post Office Networks: Strategic Issues and the Impact on Mail Demand

Martin Buser, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

7: Pricing in competitive two-sided mail markets

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

6: Liberalization of the Swiss Letter Market and the Viability of Universal Service Obligations

Christian Jaag

5: Economies of scale, density and scope in Swiss Post?s Mail Delivery

Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Urs Trinkner

4: Consumer preferences and last mile pricing in the postal sector

Beat Friedli, Christian Jaag, Daniel Kraehenbuehl, Ole Bach Nielsen, S?ren-Michael Pihl and Urs Trinkner

3: Pricing the last mile in the postal sector

Catia Felisberto, Matthias Finger, Beat Friedli, Daniel Kraehenbuehl and Urs Trinkner

2: Forecasting E-Substitution and Mail Demand

Urs Trinkner and Martin Grossmann

1: Liberalization and Regulation of the Swiss Letter Market

Helmut Dietl, Urs Trinkner and Reto Bleisch