Liberalization of the postal and delivery sector [Book] / edited by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer.

"Compendium of original essays ... selected from papers presented at the ... 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31-June 3, 2006"--CIP data view.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Information revolutions and modern postal service / James I. Campbell Jr -- Approaches to the USO under entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- Partitioning the mailstream : analysis of an innovative approach to USO / Leon A. Pintsov, Andrei Obrea and Theresa Biasi -- From the size of the box to the costs of universal service obligation : a cross country comparison / Franois Boldron, Denis Joram, Lise Martin and Bernard Roy -- A welfare analysis of price controls with end-to-end mail and access services / Philippe de Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley nad Frank Rodriquez -- Dynamics of downstream entry in postal markets / Axel Gautier -- Economies of scale, density and scope in Swiss Post's mail delivery / Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Urs Trinkner -- Measuring scale and scope economies with a structural model of postal delivery / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin, and Mary K. Perkins -- Efficient work-sharing discounts with mail heterogeneity / John C. Panzar -- Nonlinear pricing and worksharing in the postal market / Etienne Billette de Villemeur, Helmuth Cremer, Fran÷cois Boldron and Bernard Roy -- Efficiency analysis of delivery offices in the postal sector using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses / Alan Horncastle, David Jevons, Paul Dudley and Emmanuel Thanassoulis -- Economic analysis of the efficiency of Royal Mail units and the implications for regulatory policy / Richard Moriarty, Sophie Yorke, Greg Harman, John Cubbin, Meloria Meschi and Paul Smith -- From theory to practice : vertical relations in the French postal market / Xavier Ambrosini and Olaf Klargaard -- Postal deregulation and its impact on postal workers : a Canadian union perspective / Geoff Bickerton -- First steps towards new postal economics models for developing countries : learning from the Latin American experience / José Ansón, Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos and Joëlle Toledano -- The postal technology market and effects on purchasing strategy / William J. Dowling, Rpbert J. Curry, Robert A. F. Reisner and Bill Worth -- Economics of the U.S. postal service alternate access retail channels / Janet L. Webster, Dennis E. Stoker, Saadia Bukhari, Stephen Deering and Andrea M. Otis -- USO public financing at the crossroad between the "Monti package" and the forthcoming reform of the postal directive / Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo -- Scenarios of mail receipt patterns across generations / Luis Jimenez, Anna Owsiany and Chrystal Szeto -- Microanalyses of mail demand drivers for large business customers / Peter Koppe and Christian Bosch -- Measuring the impact of direct mail on the brand / Joanne McNeish -- Consumer preferences and last mile pricing in the postal sector / Beat Friedli, Christian Jaag, Daniel Krähenbühl, Ole Bach Nielsen, S²ren-Michael Pihl and Urs Trinkner -- Microeconomic demand modelling for price elasticities / Frédérique Fève, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sophie Richard -- U.S. postal services as composite goods with hedonic properties / Lawrence Fenster, Diane Monaco, Edward S. Pearsall, Charles Robinson and Spyros Xenakis.

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest as the delivery sector undergoes rapid change and the debate on liberalization rages. This compendium of original essays has been selected from papers presented at the Rutgers University CRRI 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31-June 3 2006. It explores the important new trends and issues in this rapidly changing field. The European Union's plan to open postal markets completely in 2009 has raised questions about the role of regulation, funding for the Universal Service Obligation, the future of national Postal Operators and the principles that should govern the introduction of competition. The contributors - researchers, practitioners, lawyers and senior managers from around the world - address these questions in chapters that cover postal markets, pricing, efficiency and cost analysis, labor relations, and demand drivers. Examples are drawn from around the world. This timely book will be illuminating to practitioners and managers in the postal, express and delivery industry, as well as economists, regulators, competition lawyers, and marketers.

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