Pricing in competitive two-sided mail markets

Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner

No 7, Working Papers from Swiss Economics

Abstract: The paper analyzes optimal pricing strategies in liberalized two-sided mail markets. Our results tell a cautionary tale with respect to applying two-part tariffs in postal markets, especially for delivery into P.O. box es.

Keywords: two-sided markets; pricing; two-part tariffs; P.O. box (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 M38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2007-05, Revised 2007-07
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Published in Competition and Regulation in the Postal and Delivery Sector, edited by M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 136 - 149.

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Chapter: Pricing in Competitive Two-Sided Mail Markets (2008)
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