The Postal and Delivery Contribution in Hard Times

In: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy

Abstract

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 Framework in the postal sector: takeaways from the judgements in the Česká pošta and Post Danmark cases -- Universal service vs. targeted measures towards vulnerable people: how to address postal users' needs? -- Retention ratios in retail networks and their application to post offices -- Access regimes in the European postal markets -- The Economic Implications of "Density-Based Rate Authority" -- E-commerce, parcel delivery and environmental policy -- Assessing efficiencies and benefits of "sustainability agreements" in the postal sector -- The effects of the Covid-19 crisis on postal markets -- Short and longer-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on postal consumer demands, Universal Service Providers and the wider postal sector -- Covid-19 and Swiss Post: Volume developments and the economic value of postal service, in the pandemic and beyond -- A global survey of COVID-19 postal regulatory responses, to appraise short and long-term impacts -- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the postal market: Challenges and opportunities for the postal regulatory framework -- Digital exclusion and the role of Posts have to play to fight against it -- The Response to Extensions of Vote-by-Mail and Early In-person Voting in the 2020 U.S. General Election -- Cost allocation and cooperative game theory -- Demand elasticities for publishing mail traffic in the UK: Intensive and extensive margins -- The Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of the USPS' Service Performance Scores over the Period 2011-2020.