UID:
almahu_9949285051502882
Format:
XIII, 387 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2001.
ISBN:
9781461516712
Series Statement:
Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, 38
Content:
Future Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, world-wide 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 postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and future technologies and service standards.
Note:
1. Difficulties of Deregulation When Wage Costs are the Major Cost -- 2. Estimation of the Potential Impact of Cross-Border Liberalization -- 3. A Critique of the Theory of Incentive Regulation -- 4. Preparing the Postal Service's Rate Structures for Competition -- 5. Regulatory and Governance Changes in Liberalized, Commercialized Postal Environments -- 6. Funding Universal Service Obligations: The Costs of Liberalization -- 7. Whither the USO under Competitive Entry: A Microstructure Approach -- 8. Uniform Pricing and Postal Market Liberalization -- 9. The Role of the Monopoly Product in the Cost of Universal Service -- 10. The Regulatory Framework for Postal Markets in Germany -- 11. An Analysis of Some Specific Cost Drivers in the Delivery Activity -- 12. Mail Use by Firms -- 13. The Demand for Direct Mail in Portugal -- 14. Postal Profits Arise where People Are -- 15. Reforming the Universal Postal Union -- 16. Reform in the Universal Postal Union and the World Trade Organization -- 17. GATS and the Postal Sector: The Next Round of Negotiations -- 18. The Significance of the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation for Postal Services Operators -- 19. Market Definition in EC Competition Law concerning Postal Services -- 20. Lifetime Addresses: A New Postal Paradigm for the 21st Century -- 21. Legislation Relating to Electronic Web Commerce Created at the European Union Level.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781461356707
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780792372745
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781461516729
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4615-1671-2
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1671-2
URL:
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