Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition

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

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series 44
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector. It offers current insight into strategy, regulation as well as the economics of this sector. Issues addressed include international postal policy, the universal service obligation, regulation, competition, entry, the role of scale and scope economies, the nature and role of cost and demand analysis in postal service, productivity, interaction of law and economics, human resources, transition and reform issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Balancing Access and the Universal Service Obligation....Pages 3-32
Pricing and Worksharing Discounts in the Postal Sector....Pages 33-48
Access Pricing and Parcels Delivery....Pages 49-69
Brand Loyalty and Limited Entry in Postal Markets....Pages 71-92
Reconciling Competition, Downstream Access, and Universal Service in Postal Markets....Pages 93-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Econometrics of Mail Demand....Pages 119-140
The Productivity Analysis of Postal Services....Pages 141-155
On the Output Elasticity of the Activities of Post Office Counters in Italy....Pages 157-167
Delivery Cost Heterogeneity and Vulnerability to Entry....Pages 169-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Is the Customer Always Right?....Pages 187-204
Employee Stock Ownership as a Human Capital Strategy for the United States Postal Service....Pages 205-222
Homeland Security Brings Ratepayer vs. Taxpayer To Center Stage....Pages 223-242
U.S. Postal Service Collective Bargaining....Pages 243-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Exit, Voice and Postal Performance in Developing Countries....Pages 265-276
Extra-Territorial Offices of Exchange,the USO and International Trade....Pages 277-284
Extraterritorial Offices of Exchange....Pages 285-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Transformation at Deutsche Post World Net using the Example of Socially Compatible Workforce Adjustment....Pages 303-319
The Cookie Jar Dilemma....Pages 321-338
The New Directive on the Further Liberalization of Postal Markets in Europe....Pages 339-353
Market Results of Postal Reform in Germany....Pages 355-374

✦ Subjects

Industrial Organization; Microeconomics; Management/Business for Professionals