Overview
- Discusses current issues affecting postal and delivery sectors, encompassing
- Provides an international overview of dynamics within each sector
- Includes contributions from scholars and practitioners
Part of the book series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy (TREP)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pier Luigi Parcu is part-time Professor at the European University Institute (Italy) and Director of the Centre for a Digital Society and of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. Previously he worked as Director of Investigation at the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM), Chief Economist at the Italian Security and Exchange Commission (CONSOB), Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and CEO of the Italian System Operator. His research addresses the democratic and economic challenges associated with digital platforms, as part of his broader interest in innovation dynamics in the digital economy and in emerging technologies. He is frequently invited as expert by European and international institutions and has extensively published books and articles in the fields of telecommunications, postal & delivery sectors, antitrust, media.
Victor Glass is Professor of professional practice in the finance and economics department at Rutgers Business School (US). He is Director of the Center for Research in Regulated Industries. For almost thirty years, he was responsible for forecasting demand and setting access rates for more than 1,100 telephone companies and was heavily involved in regulatory reform. He has published studies of market and regulatory issues that have appeared in academic journals and trade magazines.
Timothy J. Brennan is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (US). He has published over 135 articles and book chapters, principally on antitrust and regulatory economics, including the electricity, telecommunications, postal, oil pipeline, and other infrastructure sectors. His current research is on competition policy, particularly vertical integration and structuring abuse of dominance cases, and on regulatory pricing and methods. He also has a strong interest in the nexus between economics and philosophy, which he has applied to questions such as the ethical underpinnings of climate policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postal Strategies
Book Subtitle: Logistics, Access, and the Environment
Editors: Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, Victor Glass
Series Title: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25362-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25361-4Published: 26 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25364-5Published: 27 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25362-1Published: 25 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-7468
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7476
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 381
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Organization, Economics, general, Economics, general