Multi-modal competition and the future of mail
9. Affordability of postal services addressed to households / Claire Borsenberger, Denis Joram and Lise Martin -- 10. Towards a 21st century postal service / John C. Panzar -- 11. Privatization : could the benefits seen in other network industries be realized in postal industries? / Stuart Holder an...
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Cheltenham, U.K
Edward Elgar
2012
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| Series: | Advances in regulatory economics
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| Summary: | 9. Affordability of postal services addressed to households / Claire Borsenberger, Denis Joram and Lise Martin -- 10. Towards a 21st century postal service / John C. Panzar -- 11. Privatization : could the benefits seen in other network industries be realized in postal industries? / Stuart Holder and Helen Smith -- 12. The confluence of the postal sector with the Internet economy and regulation / John Hearn -- 13. Allocating cost between universal services and services outside the scope of universal service / Heikki Nikali ... [et al.] -- 14. Price-cap regulation in the postal sector : single versus multiple baskets / Claire Borsenberger ... [et al.] -- 15. Optimal pricing of mail in the transactional market and welfare for the wider communications market / Philippe De Donder ... [et al.] -- 16. A market study of packets and parcels services / Stephen Gibson and Nancy Race -- 17. Defending mail markets against new entrants : an application of the defender model / Christian Jaag ... [et al.] -- 18. Liberalization and postal workers / Henrik B. Okholm and Anna Möller -- 19. Government use of the postal system : an ignored USO component / Michael J. Ravnitzky and J.P. Klingenberg -- 20. UPU terminal dues : winners and losers / James I. Campbell, Jr., Alex Kalevi Dieke and Martin Zauner -- 21. On the use of reverse auctions to designate universal postal service providers / Carlos Costa -- 22. Priority and non-priority services : returning to the origins? / Filipa Silva -- 23. Understanding consumer preferences for paper and digital marketing channels / Kari Elkelä -- 24. Accounting for behavioral biases for non-biased demand estimations / Meloria Meschi and Carla Pace 1. Non-linear pricing, volume discounts and the USO under entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- 2. Price differentiation : what is acceptable for a universal service provider? / Richard Eccles -- 3. Postal price regulation in a competitive environment / Ralf Wojtek and Martin Zauner -- 4. Failure to implement the postal directive in the EU and EEA : public and private enforcement of state liability / Alessandra Fratini and Mariacristina Bottino -- 5. Forecasting letter volumes : augmenting econometric baseline projections / Vance L. Martin, Chris Paterson and Jessie Xiaokang Wang -- 6. Uncertainty and projections of the demand for mail / Frédérique Fève ... [et al.] -- 7. Do volume increases and decreases have the same effect on labor hours? / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin and Mary K. Perkins -- 8. A panel data analysis of inefficiency and heterogeneity in the postal sector / Catherine Cazals ... [et al.] -- This compilation of original papers selected from the 19th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics and authored by an international cast of economists, lawyers, regulators and industry practitioners addresses perhaps the most significant problem that has ever faced the postal sector--electronic competition from information and communication technologies. This has increased significantly over the last few years with a consequent serious drop in mail volume |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 344 p ill |
| ISBN: | 9780857935823 9780857935816 |