Competition and Regulation in the Postal and Delivery Sector

Edited by the late Michael A. Crew, formerly CRRI Professor of Regulatory Economics and Director, Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI), Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, US and the late Paul R. Kleindorfer, former Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development, INSEAD, France and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US

• Contents:PrefacePart I: Universal Service Obligation1. Regulation and the USO under Entry Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer2. Social Costs and Benefits of the Universal Service Obligation in the Postal MarketHelmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, François Boldron, Denis Joram and Bernard Roy3. The Distribution of Post Offices in Italy and the United States Robert Cohen, Luigi Di Paola, Renée Sheehy and Vincenzo Visco Comandini4. Accessibility of the Postal Retail Network, Social Cohesion and Economic DevelopmentFrançois Boldron, Karen Dewulf, Denis Joram, Clémence Panet, Bernard Roy and Olivier Vialaneix Part II: Demand5. Forecast Uncertainty in Dynamic Models: An Application to the Demand for Mail Catherine Cazals, Jean-Pierre Florens, Frank Rodriguez and Soterios Soteri6. The Impact of Economic and Demographic Dispersion on Aggregate Mail VolumesLuis Jimenez, Matthew C. Harding and Michael Lintell7. Substitution of Letter Mail for Different Sender–Receiver SegmentsHeikki Nikali8. Empirical Analysis of Service Quality in Japan's Small Package MarketShoji Maruyama Part III: Pricing under Entry9. Access, Bypass and Productivity Gains in Competitive Postal MarketsFrancis Bloch and Axel Gautier 10. Pricing in Competitive Two-Sided Mail MarketsChristian Jaag and Urs Trinkner11. Pricing, Welfare and Organisational Constraints for Postal OperatorsPhilippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez12. National Postal Strategies after a Full Postal Market OpeningGonzales d’Alcantara and Axel Gautier Part IV: Regulation13. Postcodes in Competitive Postal Markets: Is There a Case for Regulation?Alex Dieke and Sonja Schölermann14. Negotiated Volume Discounts in a Regulated PostMatthew H. Robinson, Margaret M. Cigno and J.P. Klingenberg15. Development of Competition in EU Postal Markets: The Influence of the Regulatory Framework on the Pattern of CompetitionPatrick de Bas and Nick van der Lijn16. An Incentive Regime for Quality of Service of Universal Service Providers in the Postal SectorLuis Correia da Silva, Leonardo Mautino, Paul Dudley and Elizabeth Payling Part V: Postal Reform17. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act: Some ConsequencesRobert A.F. Reisner, Lawrence G. Buc and James Pierce Myers18. The Proper Scope of the Rules on Abuse of Dominant Position in a Liberalized Postal Services MarketRichard Eccles and Pauline Kuipers19. Licensing Regimes in the Postal Sector: The Impact of the Recent EC Proposal for a Third Postal DirectiveJoost Vantomme and Alessandra Fratini20. Waiting for ‘Rowland Hill’ – Elements of Reform of Postal Services in Sub-Saharan AfricaJosé Ansón and Joëlle Toledano Part VI: Accounting and Cost21. Are There Economies of Scale in Mail Processing? Getting the Answers from a Large-but-Dirty SampleLawrence Fenster, Diane Monaco, Edward S. Pearsall and Spyros Xenakis22. The Accounting Implications of the EU’s Third Postal DirectiveJohn Hearn23. Tradeoffs in Product Costing: The Statistical Impact of Cost Pool Formation DecisionsAlan Robinson, Richard Waterman and David Rawnsley24. Data Requirements for Cost Accounting in the Mail Communication SystemLeon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea Index

'This is an important contribution for the regulatory issues in an important sector that is experiencing only now the pains of liberalisation in order to improve consumer welfare and became more efficient, as other sectors like energy and telecommunications have already experienced.'