Postal and Delivery Services Delivering on Competition [Paperback]

Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector. It offers current insight into strategy, regulation as well as the economics of this sector. Issues addressed include international postal policy, the universal service obligation, regulation, competition, entry, the role of scale and scope economies, the nature and role of cost and demand analysis in postal service, productivity, interaction of law and economics, human resources, transition and reform issues.Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector. It offers current insight into strategy, regulation as well as the economics of this sector. Issues addressed include international postal policy, the universal service obligation, regulation, competition, entry, the role of scale and scope economies, the nature and role of cost and demand analysis in postal service, productivity, interaction of law and economics, human resources, transition and reform issues.Authors. Sponsors. Foreword. Strategies for a Small Postal Business; E. Toime. Preface and Acknowledgments. Liberalization and the Universal Service Obligation. 1. Balancing Access and the Universal Service Obligation; M.A. Crew, P.R. Kleindorfer. 2. Pricing and Worksharing Discounts in the Postal Sector; E.B. de Villemeur, et al. 3. Access Pricing and Parcels Delivery; P. de Donder, et al. 4. Brand Loyalty and Limited Entry in Postal Markets; P. Burns, et al. 5. Reconciling Competition, Downstream Access, and Universal Service in Postal Markets; J.C. Panzar. Demand, Costs, and Productivity. 6. Econometrics of Mail Demand: A Comparison between Cross-section and Dynamic Data; C. Cazals, J.P. Florens. 7. The Productivity Analysis of Postal Services: A Global Comparison of Tlók