Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services

Legal and Institutional Perspectives.- 1 GATS and Physical Delivery Networks.- 2 Postal Pipeline Liberalization: the Beginning of the End for the Uniform Tariff?.- 3 The Swiss Postal Law of 1998: Is It Worth the Monopoly Protection?.- 4 Postal Joint Ventures and EC Competition Law Considerations: A Case Study Based on a Venture Between the Nordic PPOs.- 5 Postal Service and the Telecommunications Analogy.- Cost and Productivity Analysis.- 6 Productivity and Technical Change in a Public Service Enterprise.- 7 Empirical Estimation of Incremental Costs for the U.S. Postal Service.- 8 Technico-Economic Analysis of the Costs of Outside Work in Postal Delivery.- 9 Proprietary Information Networks and the Scope of the Firm: the Case of International Courier and Small Package Services in Japan.- Universal Service and Entry.- 10 An Analysis of the Potential for Cream Skimming in the United States Residential Delivery Market.- 11 Mail Goes Where the Money Is: A Study of Rural Mail Delivery in the U.S..- 12 Managing the Universal Service Obligation.- 13 Estimating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service.- 14 Authorization Procedures in The Postal Sector: Possible Lessons from Other Sectors for Entry Regulation.- Demand Analysis and the Structure of Postal Payment Systems.- 15 How Important Have Price and Quality of Service Been to Mail Volume Growth?.- 16 The Future of Targeted Communication in Finland.- 17 Demand for Letters in Portugal.- 18 Transaction Costs of Alternative Postage Payment and Evidencing Systems.- 19 Transaction Cost Economics of Postage Payment and Mailer-Post Interface.- Price Regulation.- 20 Postal Worksharing: Welfare, Technical Efficiency, and Pareto Optimality.- 21 Price-Cap Regulation in the Postal Sector: An International Comparisonand Assessment.