This compilation of original essays by an international cast of economists, regulators and industry practitioners analyzes some of the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout the world as competition from information and communication technologies (ICT) has increased....

This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Postal operators worldwide have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created by electronic competition. The European Commission and member states are wrestling with these...

Chapter 1. Postal and Electronic Communications services: together again? -- Chapter 2. Potential Insights for U.S. USO from recent Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Auctions -- Chapter 3. Postal Services. Quo Vadis? -- Chapter 4. How the fragmentation of the postal supply chain...

Introduction / Colin Robinson -- 1. Beyond regulation / Stephen Littlechild -- Comment / Colin Robinson -- 2. Ronald coase and the spectrum question / Thomas W. Hazlett -- Comment / Leonard Waverman -- 3. European energy liberalisation : progress and problems / Jorge Vasconcelos -- Comment /...