Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services

1. Front Matter

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2. Legal and Institutional Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Gats and Physical Delivery Networks

      • James I. Campbell Jr.

      Pages 3-20

   3. Postal Pipeline Liberalization

      • Stephen Agar, Ian Reay

      Pages 21-30

   4. The Swiss Postal Law of 1998

      • Matthias Finger, Colette Friedli

      Pages 31-42

   5. Postal Joint Ventures and EC Competition Law Considerations

      • Pekka Leskinen, Kent Karlsson

      Pages 43-50

   6. Postal Service and the Telecommunications Analogy

      • Carl R. Danner

      Pages 51-72

3. Cost and Productivity Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Productivity and Technical Change in a Public Service Enterprise

      • Michael D. Bradley, Jeffrey Colvin

      Pages 75-88

   3. Empirical Estimation of Incremental Costs for the U.S. Postal Service

      • Michael D. Bradley, Christopher S. Brehm, Jeffrey Colvin, William M. Takis

      Pages 89-100

   4. Technico-Economic Analysis of the Costs of outside Work in Postal Delivery

      • Bernard Roy

      Pages 101-122

   5. Proprietary Information Networks and the Scope of the Firm

      • Tetsuo Wada, Jack A. Nickerson

      Pages 123-138

4. Universal Service and Entry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. An Analysis of the Potential for Cream Skimming in the United States Residential Delivery Market

      • Robert H. Cohen, William W. Ferguson, John D. Waller, Spyros S. Xenakis

      Pages 141-157

   3. Mail Goes Where the Money is

      • Marshall Kolin, Edward J. Smith

      Pages 159-179

   4. Managing the Universal Service Obligation

      • David Rawnsley, Nomi Lazar

      Pages 181-193

   5. Estimating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service

      • Frank Rodriguez, Stephen Smith, David Storer

      Pages 195-207

   6. Authorization Procedures in the Postal Sector

      • Catherine Gallet

      Pages 209-226

5. Demand Analysis and the Structure of Postal Payment Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. How Important have Price and Quality of Service Been to Mail Volume Growth?

      • John Nankervis, Isabelle Carslake, Frank Rodriguez

      Pages 229-244

Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as cost and productivity analysis, universal service and entry, demand analysis and the structure of postal payment system, price regulation and competition.

• Change
• Monopol
• Post
• competition
• joint venture
• liberalization
• productivity
• regulation

• Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

  Michael A. Crew

• The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  Paul R. Kleindorfer

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