This document (of 362 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable exploring the regulatory and competition … publication includes submissions from 16 OECD member countries describing in detail the nature of postal regulation applying in … the sector and the competition issues that have arisen. The document also includes a background paper prepared by the OECD …

significant declines in leverage. However, we also find numerous separable effects for variables measuring regulation, competition … conventional pre- versus post-privatisation comparisons, we find that profitability, output, operating efficiency and capital …, retained government ownership and foreign listing (on U.S. and U.K. exchanges). Competition significantly reduces profitability …

-private competition, the benchmarking process described in this paper does not make use of coercive regulation and leaves the competitive … considerations. They argue that important policy goals like universal service will not be achieved by competition. However, an … my article, I describe a new concept of public-private competition, according to which governments use state owned …

. Section V explains how current legal mechanisms could promote greater competition on the issue of public sector barriers to …