Future Directions in Postal Reform

✍ Scribed by Michael L. Wachter, Barry T. Hirsch, James W. Gillula (auth.), Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 389
• Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series 38
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Future Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, world-wide 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 postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and future technologies and service standards.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Difficulties of Deregulation When Wage Costs are the Major Cost....Pages 3-24
Estimation of the Potential Impact of Cross-Border Liberalization....Pages 25-36
A Critique of the Theory of Incentive Regulation....Pages 37-65
Preparing the Postal Service’s Rate Structures for Competition....Pages 67-82
Regulatory and Governance Changes in Liberalized, Commercialized Postal Environments....Pages 83-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Funding Universal Service Obligations....Pages 101-115
Whither the USO under Competitive Entry....Pages 117-140
Uniform Pricing and Postal Market Liberalization....Pages 141-162
The Role of the Monopoly Product in the Cost of Universal Service....Pages 163-180
The Regulatory Framework for Postal Markets in Germany....Pages 181-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
An Analysis of Some Specific Cost Drivers in the Delivery Activity....Pages 197-211
Mail Use by Firms....Pages 213-232
The Demand for Direct Mail in Portugal....Pages 233-253
Postal Profits Arise where People Are....Pages 255-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Reforming the Universal Postal Union....Pages 267-292
Reform in the Universal Postal Union and the World Trade Organization....Pages 293-308
GATS and the Postal Sector....Pages 309-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
The Significance of the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation for Postal Services Operators....Pages 327-346
Market Definition in EC Competition Law concerning Postal Services....Pages 347-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Lifetime Addresses....Pages 365-374
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Legislation Relating to Electronic Web Commerce Created at the European Union Level, Implementation in Finland, Role of the Authorities....Pages 375-387
Erratum to: A Critique of the Theory of Incentive Regulation....Pages 388-388

✦ Subjects

Industrial Organization; Microeconomics; Management/Business for Professionals