UID:
almahu_9949285336102882
Format:
VIII, 506 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2000.
ISBN:
9781461544814
Series Statement:
Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, 35
Content:
Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry. Issues addressed include international postal policy; the universal service obligation; regulation; competition, entry, and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in the postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and service standards.
Note:
Content -- 1. Liberalization and the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service -- 2. Measuring the Cost of Universal Service for Posts -- 3. The Cost of Universal Service in the Postal Sector -- 4. Universal Service without a Monopoly -- 5. Worksharing, Residential Delivery, and the Future of the USO -- 6. Liberalization of the Postal Market and the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation: Some Estimates for the UK -- 7. In France, Mail Goes Where the Money and Businesses Are -- 8. Cost Estimation and Economically Efficient Prices -- 9. Simulation Modeling for Cost Estimation -- 10. Postal ABC: What are the Reasonable Expectations? -- 11. The Demand for Targeted Communication in Different Customer Groups -- 12. Technical Efficiency in CTT-Correios de Portugal -- 13. Antitrust versus Regulation Issues in the Postal Sector: Lessons from the Italian Hybrid Mail Case -- 14. Defining Postal Markets: an Antitrust Perspective -- 15. An Introduction to EC Competition Rules in the Postal Sector -- 16. Liberalizing European Postal Markets: The Advantages Of Reducing The Weight/Price Threshold -- 17. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Quiet Liberalization of the United States Postal System -- 18. Access Pricing in the Postal Sector: Complexities and Practicalities of the United States Experience -- 19. Economic Effects of an Information-Rich Mailing System Including Work Sharing -- 20. Controlling Postal Retail Transaction Costs and Improving Customer Access to Postal Products -- 21. Long-term Business Relationships between Consignor and Trucking Carrier in Japan -- 22. Strategy And The Posts: the Case of the USPS -- 23. The Current and Future Use of Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, and Strategic Alliances in the European Postal Industry -- 24. Globalization, Posts, and the Universal Postal Union: a Functional Critique.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781461370192
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780792378075
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781461544821
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4615-4481-4
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4481-4
URL:
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