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

Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Urs Trinkner

No 5, Working Papers from Swiss Economics

Abstract: Based on a cross-section data set of 2004 reflecting Swiss Post?s delivery cost we estimate its cost function and derive measures of economies of scale, density and scope.

Keywords: Economies of scale; economies of scope; economies of density (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 L87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2006-05, 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, 91-101

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