Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services

✍ Scribed by James I. Campbell Jr. (auth.), Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 359
Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series 31
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as cost and productivity analysis, universal service and entry, demand analysis and the structure of postal payment system, price regulation and competition.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Gats and Physical Delivery Networks....Pages 3-20
Postal Pipeline Liberalization....Pages 21-30
The Swiss Postal Law of 1998....Pages 31-42
Postal Joint Ventures and EC Competition Law Considerations....Pages 43-50
Postal Service and the Telecommunications Analogy....Pages 51-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Productivity and Technical Change in a Public Service Enterprise....Pages 75-88
Empirical Estimation of Incremental Costs for the U.S. Postal Service....Pages 89-100
Technico-Economic Analysis of the Costs of outside Work in Postal Delivery....Pages 101-122
Proprietary Information Networks and the Scope of the Firm....Pages 123-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
An Analysis of the Potential for Cream Skimming in the United States Residential Delivery Market....Pages 141-157
Mail Goes Where the Money is....Pages 159-179
Managing the Universal Service Obligation....Pages 181-193
Estimating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service....Pages 195-207
Authorization Procedures in the Postal Sector....Pages 209-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
How Important have Price and Quality of Service Been to Mail Volume Growth?....Pages 229-244
The Future of Targeted Communication In Finland....Pages 245-264
Demand for Letters in Portugal....Pages 265-280
Transaction Costs of Alternative Postage Payment and Evidencing Systems....Pages 281-293
Transaction Cost Economics of Postage Payment and Mailer-Post Interface....Pages 295-307
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Postal Worksharing....Pages 311-334
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Price-Cap Regulation in the Postal Sector....Pages 335-360

✦ Subjects

Industrial Organization; Microeconomics; Management/Business for Professionals

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