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Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as cost and productivity analysis, universal service and entry, demand analysis and the structure of postal payment system, price regulation and competition.
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Administrators and practitioners from the postal and delivery industries, regulators, lawyers, and academics offer 21 papers from conferences in Helsingor, Denmark in June 1997 and Montreux, Switzerland in June 1998. They address the major themes of international postal policy; the universal service obligation; regulation; competition, entry, and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in postal service; productivity; the interaction of law and economics; and service standards. Other than one paper on Japan, the focus is pretty exclusively on Europe and the US. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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