Future Directions in Postal Reform

1. Difficulties of Deregulation When Wage Costs are the Major Cost -- 2. Estimation of the Potential Impact of Cross-Border Liberalization -- 3. A Critique of the Theory of Incentive Regulation -- 4. Preparing the Postal Service’s Rate Structures for Competition -- 5. Regulatory and Governance Changes in Liberalized, Commercialized Postal Environments -- 6. Funding Universal Service Obligations: The Costs of Liberalization -- 7. Whither the USO under Competitive Entry: A Microstructure Approach -- 8. Uniform Pricing and Postal Market Liberalization -- 9. The Role of the Monopoly Product in the Cost of Universal Service -- 10. The Regulatory Framework for Postal Markets in Germany -- 11. An Analysis of Some Specific Cost Drivers in the Delivery Activity -- 12. Mail Use by Firms -- 13. The Demand for Direct Mail in Portugal -- 14. Postal Profits Arise where People Are -- 15. Reforming the Universal Postal Union -- 16. Reform in the Universal Postal Union and the World Trade Organization -- 17. GATS and the Postal Sector: The Next Round of Negotiations -- 18. The Significance of the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation for Postal Services Operators -- 19. Market Definition in EC Competition Law concerning Postal Services -- 20. Lifetime Addresses: A New Postal Paradigm for the 21st Century -- 21. Legislation Relating to Electronic Web Commerce Created at the European Union Level.