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The Postal and Delivery Contribution in Hard Times

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Editors:
  1. Pier Luigi Parcu

    1. European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

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  2. Timothy J. Brennan

    1. School of Public Policy, Univ Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA

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  3. Victor Glass

    1. Rutgers Business School, Newark, USA

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  • Offers a wide understanding of the most recent evolution of the postal and delivery sectors
  • Provides an international overview of dynamics within each sector
  • Includes contributions from scholars and practitioners

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

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Rise of e-Commerce Platforms in the Parcel Delivery Markets

    • Pier Luigi Parcu, Niccolò Innocenti, Chiara Carrozza, Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz, Maria Alessandra Rossi
    Pages 1-17

  3. Parcel Locker Stations: The Future of e-Commerce Delivery?

    • Antonia Niederprüm, Willem van Lienden
    Pages 19-39

  4. Regulation: Quo Vadis? Revisited

    • John Hearn
    Pages 41-57

  5. “Is Postal Service a Natural Monopoly?”: A 30-Year Retrospective on Panzar’s Seminal Paper

    • Victor Glass, Antonio Nicita, Stefano Gori
    Pages 59-68

  6. The First Tests of the SGEI Framework in the Postal Sector: Takeaways from the Judgements in the Česká pošta and Post Danmark Cases

    • Alessandra Fratini, Marc Chovino
    Pages 69-84

  7. Universal Service Vs. Targeted Measures towards Vulnerable People: How to Address Postal Users’ Needs?

    • Claire Borsenberger, Marine Lefort
    Pages 85-98

  8. Retention Ratios in Retail Networks and Their Application to Post Offices

    • Matthias Hafner, Lory Iunius, Urs Trinkner
    Pages 99-109

  9. Access Regimes in the European Postal Markets

    • Francesco Russo, Maria A. Ghezzi, Simona Romito, Stefano Gori
    Pages 111-123

  10. The Economic Implications of “Density-Based Rate Authority”

    • Timothy Brennan
    Pages 125-139

  11. E-Commerce, Parcel Delivery and Environmental Policy

    • Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Estelle Malavolti
    Pages 141-160

  12. Assessing Efficiencies and Benefits of “Sustainability Agreements” in the Postal Sector

    • Mindaugas Cerpickis, Anna Möller Boivie, Henrik B. Okholm
    Pages 161-176

  13. The Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis on Postal Markets

    • Antonin Arlandis, Marine Lefort, Catherine Cazals, Eric Gautier
    Pages 177-190

  14. Short and Longer-Term Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Postal Consumer Demands, Universal Service Providers and the Wider Postal Sector

    • Philip Groves, Alexander Mapletoft, Gianpiero Roscelli
    Pages 191-206

  15. Covid-19 and Swiss Post: Volume Developments and the Economic Value of Postal Service, in the Pandemic and Beyond

    • Felix Gottschalk, Alexandra Lehmann
    Pages 207-222

  16. A Global Survey of Covid-19 Postal Regulatory Responses, to Appraise Short and Long-Term Impacts

    • Susan Alexander, Bruno Basalisco, Henrik B. Okholm, Siva Somasundram, Stephanie Tizik
    Pages 223-241

  17. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Postal Market. Challenges and Opportunities for the Postal Regulatory Framework

    • Mateusz Chołodecki
    Pages 243-257

  18. Digital Exclusion and the Role of Posts Have to Play to Fight Against It

    • Claire Borsenberger, Hélène Delahaye, Muriel Barnéoud
    Pages 259-272

  19. The Response to Extensions of Vote-by-Mail and Early In-person Voting in the 2020 U.S. General Election

    • Margaret M. Cigno, Ruth Y. Goldway, Edward S. Pearsall
    Pages 273-298

  20. Cost Allocation and Cooperative Game Theory

    • Léa Munich
    Pages 299-311
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About this book

This book includes original essays by prominent researchers and practitioners in the field of postal and delivery economics, originally presented at the 29th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held online, September 1-3, 2021. The central focus of the book is the short and long-term impact of covid-19 pandemic on the sectors, both from the economic and regulatory perspectives. Other important topics include the unstoppable growth of e-commerce and the implications for delivery market; solutions for the “last mile”, and the associated challenges in terms of sustainability. Chapters also discuss traditional topics for postal and delivery sectors, such as the competitive dynamics in the sector, the business strategies of postal operators, as well as the definition and funding of the Universal Service Obligation. This book will be a useful tool not only for graduate students and professors interested in postal and regulatory economics, but also for postal administrations, consulting firms, and federal government departments. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

    Pier Luigi Parcu

  • School of Public Policy, Univ Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA

    Timothy J. Brennan

  • Rutgers Business School, Newark, USA

    Victor Glass

About the editors

Pier Luigi Parcu is part-time Professor at the European University Institute (Italy) and Area Director of the Florence School of Regulation Communications & Media. He is Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom and Director of the Florence Competition Program in Law and Economics. His research in the area of industrial organization and law and economics focuses on the interaction between regulation and antitrust in shaping firms’ behavior.

Timothy J. Brennan is professor of public policy and economics at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (US). He has published over 135 articles and book chapters, principally on antitrust and regulatory economics, including the electricity, telecommunications, postal, oil pipeline, and other infrastructure sectors. He also has a strong interest in the nexus between economics and philosophy, which he has applied to questions such as the ethics of discount rates and the role of consumer error in designing energy policy.

Victor Glass is a professor of professional practice in the finance and economics department at Rutgers Business School (US). He is the director of the Center for Research in Regulated Industries. For almost thirty years, he was responsible for forecasting demand and setting access rates for more than 1,100 telephone companies and was heavily involved in regulatory reform. He has published studies of market and regulatory issues that have appeared in academic journals and trade magazines.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Postal and Delivery Contribution in Hard Times

  • Editors: Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, Victor Glass

  • Series Title: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11413-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11412-0Published: 11 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11415-1Published: 11 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11413-7Published: 10 March 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2730-7468

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-7476

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 346

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Economics, general, Economics, general

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