The role of the postal and delivery sector in a digital age
9. Application of EU competition law in the postal sector : overview of recent cases / Damien Geradin and Christos Malamataris -- 10. Re-regulation for parcel delivery in the e-commerce context? / Joost Vantomme -- 11. Delivering the goods to households : would further regulation help or hinder? / J...
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| Language: | English |
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Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd
2014
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| Series: | Advances in regulatory economics
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| Summary: | 9. Application of EU competition law in the postal sector : overview of recent cases / Damien Geradin and Christos Malamataris -- 10. Re-regulation for parcel delivery in the e-commerce context? / Joost Vantomme -- 11. Delivering the goods to households : would further regulation help or hinder? / John Hearn -- 12. The 'national champion' approach to postal operators : the case of the Netherlands / Benjamin Gough -- 13. On alternative USO financing mechanisms for the US postal market / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin and Mary K. Perkins -- 14. The net cost of the USO under the profitability cost approach : implications of labor market conditions for the net cost calculation / Isabelle Carslake, George Houpis and Christian Strobel -- 15. Regulation and the burden of the net cost resulting from the Universal Service Obligation / Christian Jaag, Urs Trinkner and Topias Uotila -- 16. Net cost calculation : a practical example concerning La Poste and its territorial presence obligation / Frédéric Fustier, Lionel Janin and Racha Sahly -- 17. Calculating the net cost of home delivery / Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner -- 18. Peer-to-peer digital commerce : implications and opportunities for the US Postal Service and other posts / Laraine Balk Hope, Virgil Ian Stanford and Bruce Marsh -- 19. Leveraging the postal infrastructure for the authentication of individuals toward an online government service provision / Caroline Sheedy and Maria Moloney -- 20. Accessibility/proximity in the digital age : what does it mean for postal networks and postal services? / Claire Borsenberger -- 21. Digitalization of consumer invoices : a comparative study / Kari Elkelä, Heikki Nikali and Chris J. Paterson -- 22. Eat or be eaten : the implications of strategic cannibalization and transformation for the United States Postal Service / Adam C. Houck -- This volume, the result of the 21st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (Ireland, 2013), describes the continuing problem of the decline of the postal sector in the face of electronic competition and offers strategies for the survival of mail services in a digital age. The 25 original papers in this collection provide econometric analyses on the changing demand and elasticity of mail in the modern era. Proposed solutions to declining interest in the postal sector include closer links between mail services and the digital sphere, expansion of the parcel sector, changes to the universal service obligation, legal reform and regulatory change. Professors and students of regulatory economics will have an interest in this book, as will managers and other decision-makers working within the postal sector 23. Finding the conditions for a successful social redeployment combined with diversification of activities / Dominique Bailly and Margaux Meidinger -- 24. Transparency and non-discrimination in postal pricing / Joakim Levin ... [et al.] -- 25. The costs, functions and pricing of postal payment channels / Tim Walsh 1. Gross substitutes versus marginal substitutes : implications for market definition in the postal sector / Timothy J. Brennan and Michael A. Crew -- 2. A business model for USPS / Michael A. Crew and R. Richard Geddes -- 3. Is demand for market-dominant products of the United States Postal Service becoming more own-price elastic? / A. Thomas Bozzo ... [et al.] -- 4. Are US postal price elasticities changing? / Margaret M. Cigno, Katalin K. Clendenin and Edward S. Pearsall -- 5. Estimating postal demand elasticities using the PCAIDS method / Gregory Swinand and Hugh Hennessy -- 6. Pricing of delivery services in the e-commerce sector / Claire Borsenberger ... [et al.] -- 7. The regulatory treatment of end-to-end competition in the UK postal sector / Richard Eccles -- 8. The proplosed directive on the award of concession contracts : implications for USO entrustment and compensation / Alessandra Fratini -- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 341 p ill |
| ISBN: | 9781782546344 9781782546337 |