Heightening Competition 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: Foreword: Enduring Questions and Some Lessons from PracticeJoëlle Toledano1. Access and the USO Under Full Market OpeningMichael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer2. Access to Infrastructure and Service Elements in the Postal Sector Alessandra Fratini, Bernard Roy and Joost Vantomme3. National Regulation of Postal Services Under the 2008 EU Postal Services DirectiveRichard Eccles 4. Abuse of Dominance in the Postal Sector: The Contribution of the Guidance Paper on Article 82 EC Damien Geradin and David Henry5. The Altmark Ruling and Approaches to Measuring Efficiency of Postal OperatorsVincenzo Visco Comandini, Adolfo Consiglio, Stefano Gori, Emiliano Piccinin and Maria Rita Pierleoni6. Price-cap Postal Regulation: The French Experience Bénédicte Bouin, Nicolas Curien and Guillaume Lacroix7. Some Dynamic Models for Mail Demand: The French CaseFrançois Boldron, Catherine Cazals, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sébastien Lécou8. Forecasting Mail Volumes in an Evolving Market EnvironmentFrédérique Fève, Jean-Pierre Florens, Frank Rodriguez and Soterios Soteri9. The Effect of Falling Volumes on Traditional Efficiency AnalysisGreg Harman, Wim Koevoets, Alejandro Requejo, Erik van der Merwe and Navin Waghe 10. Economies of Scale and Scope and Opening Hours in Post Offices and AgenciesMassimo Filippini, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner11. Welfare and Profit Implications for Changes in Service Specification within the Universal ServicePhilippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez12. An Operational Measure of the Cost of Universal Service as Cross-subsidyMargaret Cigno, Diane Monaco and Edward S. Pearsall13. Estimating the Impact of a Uniform Price Rule in a Liberalized Postal Environment: The Case of the United States Postal ServiceMichael D. Bradley, Jeff L. Colvin, Norma B. Nieto and Daniel J. Tobias14. Funding the Cost of Universal Service in a Liberalized Postal SectorClaire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Denis Joram and Bernard Roy15. Cross-country Comparisons of Optimal Mail Delivery FrequencyClaire Borsenberger, Denis Joram, Clément Magre and Bernard Roy16. The Cost of the USO in the United StatesRobert Cohen, Charles McBride and John C. Panzar17. Universal Service Auctions in Liberalized Postal MarketsJoan Calzada, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner18. A Team of Rivals: Collaboration between United States Postal Service and UPSPaul C. Smith and Paul E. Vogel19. Customer Satisfaction Models for Itella’s Business CustomersLenni Kiikkilä20. Postal Product Innovation Using EPPMLLeon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea21. The Environmental Impacts of the US Mail: Initial Life Cycle Inventory Model and AnalysisLawrence G. Buc, Peter A. Soyka and Sander S. Glick 22. Determining the Impact of Shape and Weight of Mail Items on Manual Processing Costs: An Experimental ApproachStéphane Bernard, Caroline Gomez, Lise Martin and Bernard Roy23. Assessing the Cost of Capital for USPs in Europe: A Practical ApproachAntónio Manuel Amaral, Paulo Louro, Carla Mota and João Cristovão24. Historical Development of a Universal Service Obligation in the United StatesJames I. Campbell Jr.Index