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

No 4, Working Papers from Swiss Economics

Abstract: The paper analyzes consumer preferences towards a potential two-part tariff in the postal sector. Based on the empirical results we analyze the welfare effects of a two-part tariff when applied in the Swiss letter market.

Keywords: Pricing; Two-part tariff; Universal Service; Receiver Pays Principle; Consumer Preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2006-03, Revised 2006-07
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Published in Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector, edited by M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 343-356.

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