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Current Directions in Postal Reform

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Editors:
  1. Michael A. Crew

    1. Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

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  2. Paul R. Kleindorfer

    1. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy (TREP, volume 35)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Universal Service Obligation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Liberalization and the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service

      • Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
      Pages 3-28

    3. Measuring the Cost of Universal Service for Posts

      • Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin
      Pages 29-46

    4. The Cost of Universal Service in the Postal Sector

      • Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Jacques Laffont, André Grimaud
      Pages 47-68

    5. Universal Service without a Monopoly

      • Robert H. Cohen, William W. Ferguson, John D. Waller, Spyros S. Xenakis
      Pages 69-88

    6. Worksharing, Residential Delivery, and the Future of the USO

      • Marshall Kolin
      Pages 89-106

    7. Liberalization of the Postal Market and the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation

      • Richard Robinson, Frank Rodriguez
      Pages 107-132

    8. In France, Mail Goes Where the Money and Businesses Are

      • Françoise L. Berthélémy, Joëlle Toledano
      Pages 133-146

  3. Cost Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Cost Estimation and Economically Efficient Prices

      • Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
      Pages 149-170

    3. Simulation Modeling for Cost Estimation

      • Richard Waterman, Donald Rubin, Neal Thomas, Andrew Gelman
      Pages 171-193

    4. Postal ABC

      • Shimon Awerbuch, Alistair Preston
      Pages 195-215

  4. Empirical Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. The Demand for Targeted Communication in Different Customer Groups

      • Heikki Nikali
      Pages 219-236

    3. Technical Efficiency in CTT—Correios de Portugal

      • Alberto Alves Pimenta, Ricardo Goulão Santos, Sérgio Chilra Lagoa
      Pages 237-270

  5. Market Power Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. Antitrust versus Regulation Issues in the Postal Sector

      • Vincenzo Visco Comandini
      Pages 273-288

    3. Defining Postal Markets

      • Monika Plum, Cara Schwarz-Schilling
      Pages 289-306

    4. An Introduction to EC Competition Rules in the Postal Sector

      • Tony Reeves
      Pages 307-320
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About this book

Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide 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 the postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and service standards.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Michael A. Crew

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

    Paul R. Kleindorfer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Current Directions in Postal Reform

  • Editors: Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer

  • Series Title: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4481-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7807-5Published: 31 March 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7019-2Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4481-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2730-7468

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-7476

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 506

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Management

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