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Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services

  • Michael A. Crew
  • Paul R. Kleindorfer
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Part of the Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series book series (TREP, volume 31)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Legal and Institutional Perspectives

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
      PDF
    2. Gats and Physical Delivery Networks
      James I. Campbell Jr.
      Pages 3-20
    3. Postal Pipeline Liberalization
      Stephen Agar, Ian Reay
      Pages 21-30
    4. The Swiss Postal Law of 1998
      Matthias Finger, Colette Friedli
      Pages 31-42
    5. Postal Joint Ventures and EC Competition Law Considerations
      Pekka Leskinen, Kent Karlsson
      Pages 43-50
    6. Postal Service and the Telecommunications Analogy
      Carl R. Danner
      Pages 51-72

  3. Cost and Productivity Analysis

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 73-73
      PDF
    2. Productivity and Technical Change in a Public Service Enterprise
      Michael D. Bradley, Jeffrey Colvin
      Pages 75-88
    3. Empirical Estimation of Incremental Costs for the U.S. Postal Service
      Michael D. Bradley, Christopher S. Brehm, Jeffrey Colvin, William M. Takis
      Pages 89-100
    4. Technico-Economic Analysis of the Costs of outside Work in Postal Delivery
      Bernard Roy
      Pages 101-122
    5. Proprietary Information Networks and the Scope of the Firm
      Tetsuo Wada, Jack A. Nickerson
      Pages 123-138

  4. Universal Service and Entry

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 139-139
      PDF
    2. An Analysis of the Potential for Cream Skimming in the United States Residential Delivery Market
      Robert H. Cohen, William W. Ferguson, John D. Waller, Spyros S. Xenakis
      Pages 141-157
    3. Mail Goes Where the Money is
      Marshall Kolin, Edward J. Smith
      Pages 159-179
    4. Managing the Universal Service Obligation
      David Rawnsley, Nomi Lazar
      Pages 181-193
    5. Estimating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service
      Frank Rodriguez, Stephen Smith, David Storer
      Pages 195-207
    6. Authorization Procedures in the Postal Sector
      Catherine Gallet
      Pages 209-226

  5. Demand Analysis and the Structure of Postal Payment Systems

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 227-227
      PDF
    2. How Important have Price and Quality of Service Been to Mail Volume Growth?
      John Nankervis, Isabelle Carslake, Frank Rodriguez
      Pages 229-244
    3. The Future of Targeted Communication In Finland
      Heikki Nikali
      Pages 245-264
    4. Demand for Letters in Portugal
      Alberto Alves Pimenta, Patrícia Matoso Ferreira
      Pages 265-280
    5. Transaction Costs of Alternative Postage Payment and Evidencing Systems
      John Haldi, John T. Schmidt
      Pages 281-293
    6. Transaction Cost Economics of Postage Payment and Mailer-Post Interface
      L. A. Pintsov, S. Joshi, T. Biasi
      Pages 295-307

  6. Price Regulation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 309-309
      PDF
    2. Postal Worksharing
      Robert W. Mitchell
      Pages 311-334
    3. Price-Cap Regulation in the Postal Sector
      David E. Treworgy, Thomas M. Sharkey, David R. Fronk, Michael J. Kehoe
      Pages 335-360

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Change Monopol Post competition joint venture liberalization productivity regulation

Editors and affiliations

  • Michael A. Crew
    • 1
  • Paul R. Kleindorfer
    • 2
  1. 1.Graduate School of ManagementRutgers UniversityNewarkUSA
  2. 2.The Wharton SchoolUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaUSA

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