UID:
kobvindex_INTNLM010890718
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 385 p)
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ill
ISBN:
9781849803250
Series Statement:
Advances in regulatory economics
Content:
Foreword : enduring questions and some lessons from practice / Jo{uml}elle Toledano -- 1. Access and the USO under full market opening / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- 2. Access to infrastructure and service elements in the postal sector / Alessandra Fratini, Bernard Roy and Joost Vantomme -- 3. National regulation of postal services under the 2008 EU postal services directive / Richard Eccles -- 4. Abuse of dominance in the postal sector : the contribution of the guidance paper on Article 82 EC / Damien Geradin and David Henry -- 5. The Altmark ruling and approaches to measuring efficiency of postal operators / Vincenzo Visco Comandini ... [and others] 6. Price-cap postal regulation : the French. experience / B{acute}en{acute}edicte Bouin, Nicolas Curien and Guillaume Lacroix -- 7. Some dynamic models for mail demand : the French. case / Fran{cedil}cois Boldron ... [and others] -- 8. Forecasting mail volumes in an evolving market environment / Fr{acute}ed{acute}erique F{grave}eve ... [and others] -- 9. The effect of falling volumes on traditional efficiency analysis / Greg Harman ... [and others] -- 10. Economies of scale and scope and opening hours in post offices and agencies / Massimo Filippini, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner -- 11. Welfare and profit implications for changes in service specification within the universal service / Philippe De Donder ... [and others] -- 12. An operational measure of the cost of universal service as cross-subsidy / Margaret Cigno, Diane Monaco and Edward S. Pearsall -- 13. Estimating the impact of a uniform price rule in a liberalized postal environment : the case of the United States postal service / Michael D. Bradley ... [and others] -- 14. Funding the cost of universal service in a liberalized postal sector / Claire Borsenberger ... [and others] -- 15. Cross-country comparisons of optimal mail delivery frequency / Claire Borsenberger ... [and others] -- 16. The cost of the USO in the United States / Robert Cohen, Charles McBride and John C. Panzar -- 17. Universal service auctions in liberalized postal markets / Joan Calzada, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner -- 18. A team of rivals : collaboration between United States postal service and UPS / Paul C. Smith and Paul E. Vogel -- 19. Customer satisfaction models for Itella's business customers / Lenni Kiikkil{uml}a -- 20. Postal product innovation using EPPML / Leon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea -- 21. The environmental impacts of the US mail : initial life cycle inventory model and analysis / Lawrence G. Buc, Peter A. Soyka and Sander S. Glick -- 22. Determining the impact of shape and weight of mail items on manual processing costs : an experimental approach. / St{acute}ephane Bernard ... [and others] -- 23. Assessing the cost of capital for USPs in Europe : a practical approach. / Ant{acute}onio Manuel Amaral ... [and others] -- 24. Historical development of a universal service obligation in the United States / James I. Campbell Jr.
Content:
This compilation of original essays by an international cast of top scholars addresses some of the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. The European Commission and member states wrestle with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalization of these sectors and maintain the universal service obligation while the United States Postal Service is coming to terms with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. In addition, the book addresses the impact of electronic competition as well as other problems facing the field
Note:
"This book is a result of the Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) 17th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics which was held from May 27 to May 30, 2009 in Bordeaux, France"--P. xvi
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Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 1848446985(hbk.)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848446984(hardback)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848446985
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848446984
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4337/9781849803250
URL:
FULL
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