Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (14th : 2006 : Bern, Switzerland)

Publication

Cheltenham,UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xviii, 399 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in regulatory economics

Uniform Title

Advances in regulatory economics.

Subjects

• Delivery of goods > Congresses
• Postal service > Congresses

Note

• "Compendium of original essays ... selected from papers presented at the ... 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31-June 3, 2006"--CIP data view.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Information revolutions and modern postal service / James I. Campbell Jr -- Approaches to the USO under entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- Partitioning the mailstream : analysis of an innovative approach to USO / Leon A. Pintsov, Andrei Obrea and Theresa Biasi -- From the size of the box to the costs of universal service obligation : a cross country comparison / Franois Boldron, Denis Joram, Lise Martin and Bernard Roy -- A welfare analysis of price controls with end-to-end mail and access services / Philippe de Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley nad Frank Rodriquez -- Dynamics of downstream entry in postal markets / Axel Gautier -- Economies of scale, density and scope in Swiss Post's mail delivery / Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Urs Trinkner -- Measuring scale and scope economies with a structural model of postal delivery / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin, and Mary K. Perkins -- Efficient work-sharing discounts with mail heterogeneity / John C. Panzar -- Nonlinear pricing and worksharing in the postal market / Etienne Billette de Villemeur, Helmuth Cremer, Franc̦ois Boldron and Bernard Roy -- Efficiency analysis of delivery offices in the postal sector using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses / Alan Horncastle, David Jevons, Paul Dudley and Emmanuel Thanassoulis -- Economic analysis of the efficiency of Royal Mail units and the implications for regulatory policy / Richard Moriarty, Sophie Yorke, Greg Harman, John Cubbin, Meloria Meschi and Paul Smith -- From theory to practice : vertical relations in the French postal market / Xavier Ambrosini and Olaf Klargaard -- Postal deregulation and its impact on postal workers : a Canadian union perspective / Geoff Bickerton -- First steps towards new postal economics models for developing countries : learning from the Latin American experience / José Ansón, Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos and Joëlle Toledano -- The postal technology market and effects on purchasing strategy / William J. Dowling, Rpbert J. Curry, Robert A. F. Reisner and Bill Worth -- Economics of the U.S. postal service alternate access retail channels / Janet L. Webster, Dennis E. Stoker, Saadia Bukhari, Stephen Deering and Andrea M. Otis -- USO public financing at the crossroad between the "Monti package" and the forthcoming reform of the postal directive / Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo -- Scenarios of mail receipt patterns across generations / Luis Jimenez, Anna Owsiany and Chrystal Szeto -- Microanalyses of mail demand drivers for large business customers / Peter Koppe and Christian Bosch -- Measuring the impact of direct mail on the brand / Joanne McNeish -- Consumer preferences and last mile pricing in the postal sector / Beat Friedli, Christian Jaag, Daniel Krähenbühl, Ole Bach Nielsen, Søren-Michael Pihl and Urs Trinkner -- Microeconomic demand modelling for price elasticities / Frédérique Fève, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sophie Richard -- U.S. postal services as composite goods with hedonic properties / Lawrence Fenster, Diane Monaco, Edward S. Pearsall, Charles Robinson and Spyros Xenakis.

ISBN

• 9781847200303 (hardcover)
• 1847200303 (hardcover)

LCCN

2006033386

OCLC

• OCM72354433
• 72354433
• SCSB-5927164

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries