Progress toward liberalization of the postal and delivery sector / edited by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
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- New York, NY : Springer, c2006
- xv, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 9780387297439
- 038729743X
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- Topics in regulatory economics and policy ; 49.
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- 1. The Welfare Effects of Entry and Strategies for Maintaining the 3
- USO in the Postal Sector
- Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer
- 2. Universal Service Obligations in the Postal Sector: Economic 23
- Learnings from Cross-Country Comparisons
- Xavier Ambrosini, FranVois Boldron and Bernard Roy
- 3. Profitability of the Universal Service Postal Provider Under Entry 39
- with Economies of Scale in Collection and Delivery
- Gonzales d'Alcantara and Bernard Amerlynck
- 4. On the Use of Cost Functions in the Assessment of the Impact 59
- of Liberalization on Postal Universal Service Burden: Restricted
- versus Flexible Specifications
- Stefano Gori, Emiliano Piccinin, Simona Romito and Gennaro
- Scarfiglieri
- 5. Questioning the Monopoly-Supported Postal USO in Developing 75
- Countries
- Charles Kenny
- 6. Estimating the Net Cost of the USO: A Case Study of Colombia 89
- George Houpis, Almudena Lara and Mark Williams
- 7. Assessing the Cost of the Portuguese Postal Network: Practical 103
- Cost Evaluation of a USO and Other Applications
- Ricardo Gouldo Santos, Alberto Pimenta and
- Sofia Beatriz Henriques
- Access and Worksharing
- 8. Establishing Non-uniform Access Prices in the UK 123
- Roger Hill and Richard Robinson
- 9. Worksharing: How Much Productive Efficiency, at What Cost 141
- and at What Price?
- Robert H. Cohen, Matthew H. Robinson, John D. Waller and
- Spyros S. Xenakis
- 10. Regulating Access to Stimulate Competition in Postal Markets? 153
- Paul W.J. de Bijl, Eric van Damme and Pierre Larouche
- 11. Enhancing Competition by Unbundling the Postal Administration 173
- John Haldi and William J. Olson
- Liberalization and Quality of Service
- 12. The Economic Implications of Quality of Service Regulation in a 193
- Liberalized Postal Market
- Tom Balogh, Richard Moriarty, Paul Smith, Roisin Doherty
- and lan Leigh
- 13. Estimation of Consumers' Willingness-to-pay for Quality of 209
- Service in Post
- Gregory Swinand and Si6n Jones
- Pricing Issues
- 14. Pricing and Welfare Implications of Alternative Approaches 227
- to Setting Price Controls in the Postal Sector
- Philippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley
- and Frank Rodriguez
- 15. Pricing the Last Mile in the Postal Sector 249
- Cdtia Felisberto, Matthias Finger, Beat Friedli,
- Daniel Krdhenbiihl and Urs Trinkner
- Demand Studies
- 16. Forecasting Swiss Mail Demand 267
- Urs Trinkner and Martin Grossmann
- 17. Generational Analysis of Mail Users 281
- Luis Jimenez, Elena Diakova and Chrystal Szeto
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- 18. The New EC Framework for State Aid to Public Service and 303
- the Postal Sector: Where Do We Stand Now?
- Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo
- 19. Postal Services Regulation In Europe: A Comparative Study of the 321
- UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden
- Richard Eccles and Pauline Kuipers
- 20. Benefit-Cost Regulation of Negotiated Service Agreements 341
- David M. Levy, Joy M. Leong, Lawrence G. Buc and
- Michael K. Plunkett
- 21. The "Real" Graveyard Spiral: Experiences from the Liberalized 359
- Swedish Postal Market
- Per Jonsson and Sten Selander
- Postal Reform in Japan
- 22. Competition Structure and Future Postal Reform in Japan: 369
- In Comparison with International Liberalization
- Shoji Maruyama
- 23. The Privatization of Japan Post: Ensuring both a Viable Post 385
- and a Level Playing Field
- Amelia Porges and Joy M. Leong.
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- "This book arises out of the Thirteenth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Antwerp, Belgium, June 1-4, 2005"--Pref.
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