Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services [Hardcover]

Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as cost and productivity analysis, universal service and entry, demand analysis and the structure of postal payment system, price regulation and competition.Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as cost and productivity analysis, universal service and entry, demand analysis and the structure of postal payment system, price regulation and competition.Authors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Legal and Institutional Perspectives. 1. GATS and Physical Delivery Networks; J.I. Campbell, Jr. 2. Postal Pipeline Liberalization: the Beginning of the End for the Uniform Tariff? S. Agar, I. Reay. 3. The Swiss Postal Law of 1998: Is It Worth the Monopoly Protection? M. Finger, C. Friedli. 4. Postal Joint Ventures and EC Competition Law Considerations: A Case Study Based on a Venture Between the Nordic PPOs; P. Leskinen, K. Karlsson. 5. Postal Service and the Telecommunications Analogy; C.R. Danner. Cost and Productivity Analysis. 6. Productivity and Technical Change in a Public Service Enterprise; M.D. Bradley, J. Colvin. 7. Empirical Estimation of Incremental Costs for the U.S. Postal Service; M.D. Bradley, et al. 8. Technico-Economic Analysis of the Costs of Outside Work in Postal Delivery; B. Roy. 9. Proprietary Information Networks and the Scope of the Firm: the Case of International Courier and Small Package Services in Japan; T. Wada, J.A. Nickerson. UniverslC†