UID:
kobvindex_INTNLM010902236
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 416 p)
ISBN:
9780857935809
Series Statement:
Advances in regulatory economics
Content:
In our increasingly technology-focused world, demand for traditional postal services is steadily shrinking. This timely volume examines the many challenges that the worldwide postal sector is facing as a result of growing electronic competition, and offers expert recommendations for reshaping postal structures to strengthen their competitiveness in an electronic age
Content:
Privatization of postal operators : old arguments and new realities / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- The UK Postal Services Act 2011 / Richard Eccles -- A gravity model of international postal exchanges / Jose Anson and Matthias Helble -- Price comparisons in the parcel industry : a new approach based on the hedonic price theory / Claire Borsenberger, Sébastien Bréville and Aurélie Dehais -- A new governance model for U.S. postal services / James I. Campbell, Jr. --Estimates of U.S. postal price elasticities of demand derived from a random-coefficients discrete-choice normal model / Margaret M. Cigno, Elena S. Patel and Edward S. Pearsall --Segmentation and nonlinear pricing in the postal sector / Claire Borsenberger ... [and others] -- The proposed reform of EU rules on public procurement : a postal sector perspective / Alessandra Fratini -- Optimization of the United States postal retail network by applying GIS and econometric tools / J.P. Klingenberg, Lyudmila Y. Bzhilyanskaya and Michael J. Ravnitzky -- Estimating long-run incremental cost in the postal sector : a UK perspective / Leonardo Mantino ... [and others] -- Vulnerable users in times of declining demand : the case of basic bank services in Norway and Sweden / Henrik B. Okholm and Anna Möller -- Dynamic letter volume models : how does an economic downturn affect substitution propensities? / Vance L. Martin ... [and others] -- Electronic substitution and USO scope definition / Marcello Cuomo ... [and others] -- Letter traffic demand in the UK : some new evidence and review of econometric analysis over the past decade / Marzena Jarosik ... [and others] -- Status of the postal service twenty years after the Green Paper : a Franco-European perspective / Joëlle Toledano -- Electronic substitution and postal price elasticities : a customer market approach / Leticia Veruete-Mckay ... [and others] -- Measuring consumer preferences for postal services / C. Rohr ... [and others] -- Efficiency analysis postal operators : comparison between United States and Europe / Maria Rita Pierleoni and Stefano Gori -- Termination charges in the international parcel market / Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner -- Competition and the social cost of regulation in the postal sector / Martin Maegli and Christian Jaag -- Measuring the environmental benefit of reducing the United States Postal Service's operations / Norma B. Nieto and Adam C. Houck -- Economic regulation and the UK postal sector, 2000-2011 / Tim Walsh -- What's past is prologue : understanding developments in North American postal markets / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin and Mary K. Perkins -- Human capital and diversification choices for postal operators / Dominique Bailly and Margaux Meidinger --Welfare and pricing with single-piece and bulk mail access competition in the postal sector / Philippe De Donder ... [and others] -- The postal economy in the UK and Rutgers CRRI conferences since 1990 : a review of developments and economic themes / Frank Rodriguez -- Social media challenges the entire postal industry / Kari Elkelä and Heikki Nikali
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 0857935798
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857935793(hardback)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0857935798
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857935793
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4337/9780857935809
URL:
FULL
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