This monograph presents the results of the first significant attempt to examine the nature of the demand for insurance against natural disasters at a detailed, microeconomic level. The subject is homeowners' multiperil insurance used to cover owner-occupied residential property. The analysis...

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...

Access and Financial Viability -- 1. Access and the USO for Letters and Parcels -- 2. Access and (Non-)Uniform Pricing in the Postal Sector -- 3. Access Pricing and the Uniform Tariff in the Postal Sector -- 4. Is Mandatory Access in the Postal Sector the Key to Success? -- 5. Financial...

Worldwide, there is considerable interest in postal and delivery economics. Governments, particularly in the European Union, are examining closely the roles of the two systems and how best to regulate them. This volume brings together 20 essays originally presented at the 12th Conference on...

Postal service has received considerably less attention in the economics literature than traditional public utilities. Postal service is facing some very important challenges arising out of the increasingly high-tech nature of postal service, the entry of competition into the business, and new...

Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and...