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Title

Progress toward liberalization of the postal and delivery sector / edited by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer.

Publication

New York, NY : Springer, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Crew, Michael A.
• Kleindorfer, Paul R.
• Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (13th : 2005 : Antwerp, Belgium)

Description

xv, 400 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Topics in regulatory economics and policy series ; 49

Uniform Title

Topics in regulatory economics and policy ; 49.

Subjects

• Delivery of goods > Congresses
• Postal service > Congresses

Note

• "This book arises out of the Thirteenth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Antwerp, Belgium, June 1-4, 2005"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. The welfare effects of entry and strategies for maintaining the USO in the postal sector / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- 2. Universal service obligations in the postal sector : economic learnings from cross-country comparisons / Xavier Ambrosini, Francois Boldron and Bernard Roy -- 3. Profitability of the universal service postal provider under entry with economies of scale in collection and delivery / Gonzales d'Alcantara and Bernard Amerlynck -- 4. On the use of cost functions in the assessment of the impact of liberalization on postal universal service burden : restricted versus flexible specifications / Stefano Gori, Emiliano Piccinin, Simona Romito and Gennaro Scarfiglieri -- 5. Questioning the monopoly-supported postal USO in developing countries / Charles Kenny -- 6. Estimating the net cost of the USO : a case study of Colombia / George Houpis, Almudena Lara and Mark Williams -- 7. Assessing the cost of the Portuguese postal network : practical cost evaluation of a USO and other applications / Ricardo Goulao Santos, Alberto Pimenta and Sofia Beatriz Henriques -- 8. Establishing non-uniform access prices in the UK / Roger Hill and Richard Robinson -- 9. Worksharing : how much productive efficiency, at what cost and at what price? / Robert H. Cohen, Matthew H. Robinson, John D. Waller and Spyros S. Xenakis -- 10. Regulating access to stimulate competition in postal markets? / Paul W. J. de Bijl, Eric van Damme and Pierre Larouche -- 11. Enhancing competition by unbundling the postal administration / John Haldi and William J. Olson -- 12. The economic implications of quality of service regulation in a liberalized postal market / Tom Balogh, Richard Moriarty, Paul Smith, Roisin Doherty and Ian Leigh -- 13. Estimation of consumers' willingness-to-pay for quality of service in post / Gregory Swinand and Sion Jones -- 14. Pricing and welfare implications of alternative approaches to setting price controls in the postal sector / Philippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez -- 15. Pricing the last mile in the postal sector / Catia Felisberto, Matthias Finger, Beat Friedli, Daniel Krahenbuhl and Urs Trinkner -- 16. Forecasting Swiss mail demand / Urs Trinkner and Martin Grossmann -- 17. Generational analysis of mail users / Luis Jimenez, Elena Diakova and Chrystal Szeto -- 18. The new EC framework for state aid to public service and the postal sector : where do we stand now? / Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo -- 19. Postal services regulation in Europe : a comparative study of the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden / Richard Eccles and Pauline Kuipers -- 20. Benefit-cost regulation of negotiated service agreements / David M. Levy, Joy M. Leong, Lawrence G. Buc and Michael K. Plunkett -- 21. The "real" graveyard spiral : experiences from the liberalized Swedish postal market / Per Jonsson and Sten Selander -- 22. Competition structure and future postal reform in Japan : in comparison with international liberalization / Shoji Maruyama -- 23. The privatization of Japan post : ensuring both a viable post and a level playing field / Amelia Porges and Joy M. Leong.

ISBN

• 038729743X (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780387297439 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005934307

OCLC

• 64572038
• ocm64572038
• SCSB-5926316

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Columbia University Libraries