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Springer Current Directions In Postal Reform 2000 Edition by Michael A. Crew Paul R. Kleindorfer
Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners worldwide 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 the postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and service standards. Table of contents : Preface and Acknowledgements. Universal Service Obligation. 1. Liberalization and the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service; M.A. Crew P.R. Kleindorfer. 2. Measuring the Cost of Universal Service for Posts; M.D. Bradley J. Colvin. 3. The Cost of Universal Service in the Postal Sector; H. Cremer et al. 4. Universal Service without a Monopoly; R.H. Cohen et al. 5. Worksharing Residential Delivery and the Future of the USO; M. Kolin. 6. Liberalization of the Postal Market and the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation: Some Estimates for the UK; R. Robinson F. Rodriguez. 7. In France Mail Goes Where the Money and Businesses Are; F.L. Berthelemy and Joelle Toledano. Cost Analysis. 8. Cost Estimation and Economically Efficient Prices; M.A. Crew P.R. Kleindorfer. 9. Simulation Modeling for Cost Estimation; R. Waterman et al. 10. Postal ABC: What are the Reasonable Expectations? S. Awerbuch A. Preston. Empirical Studies. 11. The Demand for Targeted Communication in Different Customer Groups; H. Nikali. 12. Technical Efficiency in CTT-Correios de Portugal; A.A. Pimenta et al. Market Power Issues. 13. Antitrust versus Regulation Issues in the Postal Sector: Lessons from the Italian Hybrid Mail Case; V.V. Comandini. 14. Defining Postal Markets: an Antitrust Perspective; M. Plum C. Schwarz-Schilling. 15. An Introduction to EC Competition Rules in the Postal Sector; T. Reeves. 16. LiberalizingEuropean Postal Markets: The Advantages Of Reducing The Weight/Price Threshold; I. Reay. 17. Hiding in Plaint Sight: The Quiet Liberalization of the United States Postal System; M.S. Elcano et al. 18. Access Pricing in the Postal Sector: Complexities and Practicalities of the United States Experience; J.T. Pickett et al. Transactions Costs and Contracting. 19. Economic Effects of an Information-Rich Mailing System Including Work Sharing; T. Biasi et al. 20. Controlling Postal Retail Transaction Costs and Improving Customer Access to Postal Products; J. Haldi J.T. Schmidt. 21. Long-term Business Relationships between Consignor and Trucking Carrier in Japan; N. Kasuga A. Torii. Strategic Issues. 22. Strategy And The Posts: the Case of the USPS; R.A.F. Reisner. 23. The Current and Fugure Use of Mergers Acquisitions Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances in the European Postal Industry; P.A. Halberg K.M. Hansen. 24. Globalization Posts and the Universal Postal Union: a Functional Critique; T. Walsh.