Current Directions in Postal Reform

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

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.

• Monopol
• Post
• Postal industry
• business
• productivity
• strategy

• 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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