Current Directions in Postal Reform

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer (auth.), Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 504
Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series 35
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry. Issues addressed include international postal policy; the universal service obligation; regulation; competition, entry, and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in the postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and service standards.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Liberalization and the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service....Pages 3-28
Measuring the Cost of Universal Service for Posts....Pages 29-46
The Cost of Universal Service in the Postal Sector....Pages 47-68
Universal Service without a Monopoly....Pages 69-88
Worksharing, Residential Delivery, and the Future of the USO....Pages 89-106
Liberalization of the Postal Market and the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation....Pages 107-132
In France, Mail Goes Where the Money and Businesses Are....Pages 133-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Cost Estimation and Economically Efficient Prices....Pages 149-170
Simulation Modeling for Cost Estimation....Pages 171-193
Postal ABC....Pages 195-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
The Demand for Targeted Communication in Different Customer Groups....Pages 219-236
Technical Efficiency in CTT—Correios de Portugal....Pages 237-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Antitrust versus Regulation Issues in the Postal Sector....Pages 273-288
Defining Postal Markets....Pages 289-306
An Introduction to EC Competition Rules in the Postal Sector....Pages 307-320
Liberalizing European Postal Markets....Pages 321-336
Hiding in Plain Sight....Pages 337-352
Access Pricing in the Postal Sector....Pages 353-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Economic Effects of an Information-Rich Mailing System Including Work Sharing....Pages 375-393
Controlling Postal Retail Transaction Costs and Improving Customer Access to Postal Products....Pages 395-412
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Long-term Business Relationships between Consignor and Trucking Carrier in Japan....Pages 413-438
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
Strategy and The Posts....Pages 441-462
The Current and Future Use of Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, and Strategic Alliances in the European Postal Industry....Pages 463-481
Globalization, Posts, and the Universal Postal Union....Pages 483-506

✦ Subjects

Industrial Organization; Microeconomics; Management/Business for Professionals

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