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Commercial and Regulatory Aspects of Reverse Hybrid Mail

Jaag, Christian; Stahl, Florian; Stroelin, Benoit - Swiss Economics - 2011

Driven by market opening and increased competition from electronic communication, postal operators have started extending their scope of business by offering hybrid mail services in addition to physical mail conveyance. This paper discusses commercial and regulatory aspects of reverse hybrid...

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Postal and Regulatory Reform in Intermodal Competition

Jaag, Christian; Dietl, Helmut - Swiss Economics - 2011

This paper argues that transforming the postal business model goes hand in hand with a transformation in the definition of universal service obligation. Whilst postal operators need to fully embrace the unique competitive space created by electronic substitution, at the intersection between the...

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Liberalization and Regulation of the Swiss Letter Market

Dietl, Helmut M.; Trinkner, Urs; Bleisch, Reto - Swiss Economics - 2004

The paper analyzes the impact of different regulatory models on competition and welfare in the Swiss letter market. We conclude that the US system worksharing yields the best results.

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The interaction of universal service costing and financing in the postal sector: A calibrated approach

Jaag, Christian; Trinkner, Urs - Swiss Economics - 2010

The financing of universal service provision in the postal sector has traditionally relied on granting the universal service provider a reserved area. Together with growing electronic substitution, current liberalization policies promoting competitive entry may put the traditional universal...

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Forecasting E-Substitution and Mail Demand

Trinkner, Urs; Grossmann, Martin - Swiss Economics - 2005

Based on historical data from 1980 to 2004 the paper analyzes the main drivers of mail demand and the impact of e-substitution by using time-series techniques. We find strong evidence for e-substitution. In the second part of the paper we provide forecasts for future mail volumes.

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A General Framework for Regulation and Liberalization in Network Industries

Jaag, Christian; Trinkner, Urs - Swiss Economics - 2009

In parallel with liberalization, sector-specific regulation in network industries has become a widely discussed topic … on whether such regulation is necessary and if so what its optimal design should be. Some argue for complete deregulation …. Consequently, competition law and sector-specific regulation play complementary roles. In this paper, we present a general economic …

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The Effects of Increased Competition in a Vertically Separated Railway Market

Lang, Markus; Laperrouza, Marc; Finger, Matthias - Swiss Economics - 2010

This paper presents a game-theoretic model of a liberalized railway market, in which train operation and ownership of infrastructure are vertically separated. We analyze how the regulatory agency will optimally set the charges that operators have to pay to the infrastructure manager for access...

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Defining and financing an intermodal USO

Jaag, Christian; Trinkner, Urs - Swiss Economics - 2012

This paper assesses the potential of a combined “USO in communications”, i.e. a USO that simultaneously defines the physical and digital requirements for the conveyance of communication irrespective of the specific sector.

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Unobserved heterogeneous effects in the cost efficiency analysis of electricity distribution systems

Agrell, Per J.; Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo; … - Swiss Economics - 2013

regulatory authorities to establish price- or revenue cap regulation regimes. The increasing use of efficiency analysis in the …

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Defending Mail Markets against New Entrants: An Application of the Defender Model

Jaag, Christian; Dietl, Helmut; Trinkner, Urs; Fürst, … - Swiss Economics - 2011

In this paper we analyzed the strategic competition between incumbent postal operators and market entrants in liberalized letter markets based on the “defender consumer model” pioneered by Hauser and Shugan (1983) and derived qualitative normative implications on how an established firm...

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