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Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services

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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 31)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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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
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About this book

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.

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: Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services

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

  • Series Title: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5122-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8454-0Published: 28 February 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5080-2Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-5122-2Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2730-7468

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-7476

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 360

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Management

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