Book Announcement: Postal and Delivery Services

Book Announcement:
Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector has gone to press.

December 14, 2007

Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector
edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer.

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest as the delivery sector undergoes rapid change and the debate on liberalization rages. This compendium of original essays has been selected from papers presented at the Rutgers University CRRI 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31- June 3, 2006. It explores the important new trends and issues in this rapidly changing field.

The European Union’s plan to open postal markets completely in 2009 has raised questions about the role of regulation, funding for the Universal Service Obligation, the future of national Postal Operators and the principles that should govern the introduction of competition. The contributors – researchers, practitioners, lawyers and senior managers from around the world – address these questions in chapters that cover postal markets, pricing, efficiency and cost analysis, labor relations, and demand drivers. Examples are drawn from around the world.

This timely book will be illuminating to practitioners and mangers in the postal, express and delivery industry, as well as economists, regulators, competition lawyers, and marketers.

Table of Contents is available here.

Michael A. Crew is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) and the CRRI Scholar at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, and Paul R. Kleindorfer is Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Distinguished Research Professor at INSEAD, France.

Contributors: X. Ambrosini, J. Ansón, T. Biasi, G. Bickerton, E. Billette de Villemeur, F. Boldron, C. Bosch, M. Bradley, S. Bukhari, J. Campbell, J. Colvin, H. Cremer, M. Crew, R. Cuadra, J. Cubbin, R. Curry, P. De Donder, S. Deering, W. Dowling, P. Dudley, M. Farsi, L. Fenster, F. Fève, M. Filippini, F. Filpo, J. Florens, A. Fratini, B. Friedli, A. Gautier, G. Harman, A. Horncastle, C. Jagg, D. Jevons, L. Jimenez, D. Joram, O. Klargaard, P. Kleindorfer, P. Koppe, D. Krähenbühl, A. Linhares, L. Martin, J. McNeish, M. Meschi, R. Moriarty, O. Nielsen, A. Obrea, A. Otis, A. Owsiany, J. Panzar, E. Pearsall, M Perkins, S-M. Pihl, L. Pintsov, R. Reisner, S. Richard, C. Robinson, F. Rodriguez, G. Ronderos, B. Roy, P. Smith, D. Stoker, C. Szeto, E. Thanassoulis, J. Toledano, U. Trinkner, J. Webster, B. Worth, S. Xenakis, and S. Yorke.

The Conference was sponsored by CRRI—Center for Research in Regulated Industries, Rutgers University; Siemens Energy and Automation; Royal Mail; Swiss Post; Deutsche Post World Net; United States Postal Service; Canada Post Corporation; FedEx; La Poste; La Poste / De Post; R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company; UPS; CTT Correios de Portugal SA; Pitney Bowes, Inc.; Postcomm – Postal Services Commission; U.S. Postal Rate Commission; Posten AB; Finland Post Corporation; Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Anacom; An Post; ARCEP; A.T. Kearney GmbH; LECG; NERA Economic Consulting; Österreichische Post AG; Oxera; Poste Italiane; Posten Norge AS; Postwatch; TNT Post; Haldi Associates; IBM Global Business Services; Sidley Austin LLP; Comreg; Frontier Economics; O’Connor and Company LLC; Bird & Bird; d’Alcantara Economic Consulting; Envelope Manufacturers Association; London Economics; National Association of Letter Carriers; New Zealand Post; Parcel Shippers Association; Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP; SLS Consulting, Inc.; Venable LLP; and Association for Postal Commerce .