Future Directions in Postal Reform
Published on 31. January 2001
Book
Hardback
XIII, 387 pages
978-0-7923-7274-5 (ISBN)
Description
Future Directions in Postal Reform
brings together leading practitioners, world-wide 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 postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and future technologies and service standards.
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Series
Edition
2001 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XIII, 387 p.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
744 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-7274-5 (9780792372745)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-1671-2
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Content
1. Difficulties of Deregulation When Wage Costs are the Major Cost.- 2. Estimation of the Potential Impact of Cross-Border Liberalization.- 3. A Critique of the Theory of Incentive Regulation.- 4. Preparing the Postal Service's Rate Structures for Competition.- 5. Regulatory and Governance Changes in Liberalized, Commercialized Postal Environments.- 6. Funding Universal Service Obligations: The Costs of Liberalization.- 7. Whither the USO under Competitive Entry: A Microstructure Approach.- 8. Uniform Pricing and Postal Market Liberalization.- 9. The Role of the Monopoly Product in the Cost of Universal Service.- 10. The Regulatory Framework for Postal Markets in Germany.- 11. An Analysis of Some Specific Cost Drivers in the Delivery Activity.- 12. Mail Use by Firms.- 13. The Demand for Direct Mail in Portugal.- 14. Postal Profits Arise where People Are.- 15. Reforming the Universal Postal Union.- 16. Reform in the Universal Postal Union and the World Trade Organization.- 17. GATS and the Postal Sector: The Next Round of Negotiations.- 18. The Significance of the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation for Postal Services Operators.- 19. Market Definition in EC Competition Law concerning Postal Services.- 20. Lifetime Addresses: A New Postal Paradigm for the 21st Century.- 21. Legislation Relating to Electronic Web Commerce Created at the European Union Level.