New business and regulatory strategies in the postal sector. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, Victor Glass, editors.
• Editors: Parcu, Pier Luigi; Brennan, Timothy J; Glass, Victor
• Other Names: Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, 26th
• Contents: Chapter 1: Inducing Optimal Quality Under Price Caps: Why, How and Whether.- Chapter 2: To What Extent has E-substitution Impacted the Demand for Letters and Which Factors are Constraining its Advance.- Chapter 3: The Impact of Increasing Competition for Non-Contract Parcels on Postal Prices and Efficiency Decisions.- Chapter 4: How Price Sensitive is Letter Advertising Mail in the UK.- Chapter 5: Creating Last Mile Incentives from Inside-Out: A Template drawn from Rural Telecom.- Chapter 6: Postal Industry Innovation: Exploring New Worlds.- Chapter 7: Compensation Fund in Postal Service: A Step Forward After the Polish Case.- Chapter 8: Crowdsourcing the Last Mile.- Chapter 9: Open-data: A solution when Data constitutes an essential facility?.- Chapter 10: Vertical Integration in the e-commerce sector.- Chapter 11: Consolidation in Urban Logistics: What could we Learn from past Experiences and Economic Theory?.- Chapter 12: Lessons from Other Network Industries: Should Posts Seek to Collaborate More in the Last Mile?.- Chapter 13: Postal Operators as "Ground-Based" Online Platforms?.- Chapter 14: The Transformation of Postal Services in light of Technology Developments and Users' Needs.- Chapter 15: The Reassessment of the Postal Service.- Chapter 16: Regulating Person to Person Communication.- Chapter 17: Relating Postal Volumes to the Business Cycle by Linear Regression with Integral Equations.- Chapter 18: The Danish Problem.- Chapter 19: Parcel Lockers: An Answer to the Pressure on the Last Mile Delivery?.- Chapter 20: Market Studies as Competition Policy Tools: Applications to Postal Services.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 383; Postal service -- Congresses; Postal service -- Regulation -- Congresses; Postal service -- Government policy -- Congresses; Delivery of goods -- Congresses; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030029371; 3030029379
• Related ISBNs: 9783030029364; 3030029360
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 15, 2019).
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