Chapter 1. Competition in the Postal and Delivery Markets in Europe -- Chapter 2. The Game Theory of Cartels in the Postal Industry -- Chapter 3. When a price cost test is unnecessary for assessing pricing abuses - the Royal Mail case -- Chapter 4. Data and the regulation of e-commerce: data...

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics is the subject of considerable interest. The postal industry’s business model is in drastic need of change. Notably, the European Commission and member states are still wrestling with the problems of implementing liberalization of entry into postal...

Chapter 1 - Competitive strategies of marketplaces vis-à-vis logistic choices: issues for competition policy (Pier Luigi Parcu) -- Chapter 2 - Lessons from the Experience of Telecommunications Regulation for Regulation in the EU Package Delivery Industry, with Focus on Access Regulation (Debra...

The rise of e-commerce platforms in the parcel delivery markets -- Parcel locker stations: The future of e-commerce delivery? -- Regulation: Quo Vadis? Revisited. -- “Is Postal Service a Natural Monopoly?”:A 30-year retrospective on Panzar’s seminal paper" -- The first tests of the SGEI...

Chapter 1: Academic Hubs and the Intellectual Infrastructure of Economic Regulation -- Chapter 2: On Some Historical Contributions of the Postal Delivery Conference -- Chapter 3: Michael Crew's (and Paul Kleindorfer's) Scholarly Contributions to the CRRI Postal Conferences, 1990-2012 -- Chapter...

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...

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Worldwide, there is currently a considerable amount of interest in postal and delivery economics. The industry is reacting to a state of near crisis and is implementing different drastic changes. The...

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 -- Postal and Delivery Industry -- The European Commission -- Liberalization of Entry Into Postal Markets -- Digital Competition -- Universal Service Obligation -- The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 -- USPS -- Post Offices (POs).