Progress in the Competitive Agenda 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: Preface1. Service Quality, Price Caps and the USO Under EntryMichael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer2. Estimating the Impact of Price Regulation on Service Quality in PostGregory Swinand, Sean Lyons, Michael O’Grady and David Murphy 3. Price and Quality of Service Regulation in PortugalJoão Castro and Agostinho Franco4. Competition through Downstream Access in the UK Postal Sector: The First Four Years Paul Dudley, Stephen Agar, Leonardo Mautino and Felipe Flórez Duncan5. A Dynamic and Endogenous Approach to Financing the USO in a Liberalized EnvironmentFrançois Boldron, Claire Borsenberger, Denis Joram, Sébastien Lécou and Bernard Roy6. Postal Costing Beyond ABC: Estimating the Economic Cost of Mails Services Richard Robinson and Jane McMurdie7. Costing Elements of the Universal ServiceRichard Bradley, Phil Burns and George Houpis 8. Calculating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation: The Need for a Global ApproachChristian Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner9. Cost Analysis and Pricing of Innovative Postal ProductsLouis F. O’Brien, Leon A. Pintsov and Andrei Obrea10. Some Welfare and Pricing Implications of Alternative Regimes for Value-Added Taxation of Postal Services Philippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez 11. Postal Price Elasticities and Intermedia Competition: A Multisided Market Approach Vincenzo Visco Comandini, Michael Lintell, Stefano Gori, Maria Rita Pierleoni and Bradley Tisdahl12. Network Externalities and the USO: A Two-sided Market ApproachFrançois Boldron, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Denis Joram and Bernard Roy13. Mail Order Businesses Demand: A Conceptual ApproachXavier Ambrosini, Sebastien Breville, Joël Cornee and Olaf Klargaard14. Internet Advertising and Direct Mail: Trends and Analysis for the UKSoterios Soteri, Frédérique Fève, Jean-Pierre Florens and Frank Rodriguez15. Using Operating Data to Measure Labor Input Variability and Density Economies in United States Postal Service Mail Processing OperationsA. Thomas Bozzo16. Do Differences in Facility-Specific Mail Processing Unit Costs Have Implications for the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation? Margaret Cigno, Diane Monaco and Matthew Robinson17. The EU Postal Services and Public Procurement Law: Legal and Regulatory Issues for the Postal SectorAlessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo18. How Should Regulation be Adjusted when Universal Service Substitution Grows?Pekka Leskinen, Peter Karlsson, Heikki Nikali and Päivi Rokkanen 19. Market Entry and Competitive Strategies in the German B2B Parcel Market Helmut M. Dietl, Markus Lang, Martin Lutzenberger and Stephan M. Wagner20. Bank of America, Mail, and the EnvironmentLawrence G. Buc and Peter A. Soyka21. Innovation in Postal Products and Pricing: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Reform EraRobert A.F. Reisner, Maynard Benjamin and Derek Osborn22. The IPO as a Driving Force in the Change ProcessPeter Koppe, Christian Bosch, Silke Hömstreit and Stefan Pohl Index