Research Catalog

Title

Regulatory and economic challenges in the postal and delivery sector / edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer.

Publication

New York, NY : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crew, Michael A.
• Kleindorfer, Paul R.
• Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (12th : 2003 : Cork, Ireland)

Description

xiii, 413 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Topics in regulatory economics and policy series ; TREP48

Uniform Title

Topics in regulatory economics and policy ; 48.

Subjects

• Postal service > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Postal service > International cooperation > Congresses
• Postal conventions > Congresses
• Postal service > Law and legislation > Congresses

Note

• "Twelfth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, held in Cork Ireland, June 2-5, 2003"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Competition, universal service and the graveyard spiral / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- 2. Will entrants into a liberalized delivery market attract investors / Robert H. Cohen, Matthew Robinson, Renee Sheehy, John Waller and Spyros Xenakis -- 3. Liberalization and regulation of the Swiss letter market / Helmut M. Dietl, Urs Trinkner and Reto Bleisch -- 4. The financial equilibrium of universal service providers in a liberalized postal market / Roger Hill, Richard Robinson and Frank Rodriguez -- 5. Barriers to entry in post and regulatory responses / Richard Moriarty and Paul Smith -- 6. Competition and the coverage of price controls in the postal sector / Paul Dudley, Helen Jenkins, Leonardo Mautino and Sophie Richard -- 7. Worksharing, pricing and competition in the postal sector / Etienne Billette de Villemeur, Helmuth Cremer, Bernard Roy and Joelle Toledano -- 8. Access pricing in the postal sector : results from a model with bypass and customer direct access / Philippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer and Frank Rodriguez -- 9. Delivery costs II : back to parametric models / Catherine Cazals, Frederique Feve, Jean-Pierre Florens and Bernard Roy -- 10. Delivery costs for postal services in the UK : some results on scale economies with panel data / Catherine Cazals, Jean-Pierre Florens and Soterios Soteri -- 11. The effects of worksharing and other product innovations on U.S. postal volumes and revenues / Edward S. Pearsall -- 12. ETOEs : arbitrageurs or vehicles of change in postal liberalization? / Joy M. Leong, Daniel Bahar and Dimosthenis Papakrivopoulos -- 13. Universal service providers : defensive moves on the level playing field / Mary Anne Gibbons -- 14. Selective rate discounts to preserve first-class mail volume / David M. Levy -- 15. Possible end games in the European postal market : Qui Bone? / J. Strikwerda and D. Rijnders -- 16. Postal liberalization in the EU : a small step in weights, a giant leap for the market / Mark van der Horst -- 17. Paper or electronic? : preferred and disfavored reception channels for direct marketing / Kari Elkela -- 18. The role of pilot projects in facilitating changes in work organization in the postal sector : Canadian case study / Lynne Bue and Geoff Bickerton -- 19. Power and discretion in independent regulation : the case of Portuguese communications markets / Joao Confraria -- 20. United States postal service office of inspector general : developing best practices for a postal watchdog / David C. Williams and Thomas M. Sharkey.

ISBN

• 1402079729
• 0387236376 (ebook)

OCLC

• ocm57446551
• SCSB-5192199

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries