Overview

Regulation continues to be an important issue in the postal and delivery sector of the global economy. This latest volume in the Advances in Regulatory Economics series reflects the latest research on trends and policies affecting the postal sector and progress made in the industry's competitive agenda. It is global in scope and covers a broad range of legal and economic issues from leading scholars, researchers, and policy makers.Topics covered include: service quality and price caps, the impact of price regulation on service quality, financing the USO, cost analysis and pricing of innovative postal products, postal demand studies, the effects of intermedia competition; mail order demand; Internet advertising, trends in direct mail, legal and regulatory issues related to the postal sector, competitive strategies in the parcel market, and environmental impacts of mail. The book also provides concrete analyses of the driving forces underlying restructuring, transformation and privatization strategies of postal operators. Scholars and practitioners in public sector economics and postal regulation will appreciate this in-depth treatment of their industry.

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Author:   Michael A. Crew ,  Paul R. Kleindorfer
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.766kg
ISBN:  

9781848440609

ISBN 10:   184844060
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   31 March 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. Service Quality, Price Caps and the USO Under Entry Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer 2. Estimating the Impact of Price Regulation on Service Quality in Post Gregory Swinand, Sean Lyons, Michael O'Grady and David Murphy 3. Price and Quality of Service Regulation in Portugal Joao Castro and Agostinho Franco 4. Competition through Downstream Access in the UK Postal Sector: The First Four Years Paul Dudley, Stephen Agar, Leonardo Mautino and Felipe Florez Duncan 5. A Dynamic and Endogenous Approach to Financing the USO in a Liberalized Environment Francois Boldron, Claire Borsenberger, Denis Joram, Sebastien Lecou and Bernard Roy 6. Postal Costing Beyond ABC: Estimating the Economic Cost of Mails Services Richard Robinson and Jane McMurdie 7. Costing Elements of the Universal Service Richard Bradley, Phil Burns and George Houpis 8. Calculating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation: The Need for a Global Approach Christian Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner 9. Cost Analysis and Pricing of Innovative Postal Products Louis F. O'Brien, Leon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea 10. Some Welfare and Pricing Implications of Alternative Regimes for Value-Added Taxation of Postal Services Philippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez 11. Postal Price Elasticities and Intermedia Competition: A Multisided Market Approach Vincenzo Visco Comandini, Michael Lintell, Stefano Gori, Maria Rita Pierleoni and Bradley Tisdahl 12. Network Externalities and the USO: A Two-sided Market Approach Francois Boldron, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Denis Joram and Bernard Roy 13. Mail Order Businesses Demand: A Conceptual Approach Xavier Ambrosini, Sebastien Breville, Joel Cornee and Olaf Klargaard 14. Internet Advertising and Direct Mail: Trends and Analysis for the UK Soterios Soteri, Frederique Feve, Jean-Pierre Florens and Frank Rodriguez 15. Using Operating Data to Measure Labor Input Variability and Density Economies in United States Postal Service Mail Processing Operations A. Thomas Bozzo 16. Do Differences in Facility-Specific Mail Processing Unit Costs Have Implications for the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation? Margaret Cigno, Diane Monaco and Matthew Robinson 17. The EU Postal Services and Public Procurement Law: Legal and Regulatory Issues for the Postal Sector Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo 18. How Should Regulation be Adjusted when Universal Service Substitution Grows? Pekka Leskinen, Peter Karlsson, Heikki Nikali and Paivi Rokkanen 19. Market Entry and Competitive Strategies in the German B2B Parcel Market Helmut M. Dietl, Markus Lang, Martin Lutzenberger and Stephan M. Wagner 20. Bank of America, Mail, and the Environment Lawrence G. Buc and Peter A. Soyka 21. Innovation in Postal Products and Pricing: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Reform Era Robert A.F. Reisner, Maynard Benjamin and Derek Osborn 22. The IPO as a Driving Force in the Change Process Peter Koppe, Christian Bosch, Silke Hoemstreit and Stefan Pohl Index

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Edited by the late Michael A. Crew, formerly CRRI Professor of Regulatory Economics and Director, Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI), Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, US and the late Paul R. Kleindorfer, former Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development, INSEAD, France and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US

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