Research Catalog

Title

Commercialization of postal and delivery services : national and international perspectives / edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crew, Michael A.
• Kleindorfer, Paul R.

Description

xvii, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Topics in regulatory economics and policy series ; TREP 19

Uniform Title

Topics in regulatory economics and policy ; 19.

Subjects

• Postal service > Deregulation > Congresses
• Postal service > International cooperation > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a conference held in Stockholm, Sweden, May 18-21, 1994, and a workshop held in Hakone, Japan, June 1-4, 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword: The Commercial Postal Businesses / Elmar Toime -- 1. A Review of Efforts to Develop a New Policy Framework for Postal Services in the European Union / James I. Campbell Jr. -- 2. Deregulation of Australia's Postal Services / Maurice C. Castro -- 3. The Application of Legal Safeguards Against Predation to the Postal Services Industry / William E. Kovacic -- 4. Measuring the Performance of the Public Postal Service Provider in Germany / Heinz Hofmann -- 5. Measuring Quality of Service of International Mail / Thomas Grzesiak and Thomas Reenberg -- 6. Post-Appointment Preference Shaping and Its Influence on Judicial Analysis of Economic Regulation Issues / William E. Kovacic -- 7. A Consumers' Group's View of New Services, Quality, and Regulation / Colin J. Mitchell -- 8. Pricing in Postal Service under Competitive Entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- 9. An Econometric Model of Postal Delivery / Michael D. Bradley and Jeff Colvin -- 10. The Scope of the Reserved Area / Ian Reay.
• 11. Price Caps for Postal Service / Walpurga A.K. Speckbacher -- 12. Use of Technology Arising from Customers' Needs / Hannu Tuominen -- 13. On the Structure of Inter-Firm Postal Demand / Toru Azumi -- 14. Analysis of Economies of Scale in Small Package Carrier Service in Japan / Toru Azumi and Ken Umemura -- 15. Replacement of Letter Mail by Electronic Communications to the Year 2010 / Heikki Nikali -- 16. Regulation of Unregulated Firms: The Postal Service and UPS / E. Rand Costich and W. Gail Willette -- 17. Alternative Scenarios for the Reform of Postal Services: Optimal Pricing and Welfare / Helmuth Cremer, Marc De Rycke and Andre Grimaud -- 18. Aggregate Letter Traffic Demand in the United Kingdom and the Economy / John Nankervis and Frank Rodriguez.

ISBN

079239514X (alk. paper)

LCCN

94036133

OCLC

• 31172845
• ocm31172845

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries